Bella Campbell, at sixteen, reluctantly gives up her newborn daughter. Twenty-plus years later, Destiny gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother, now a librarian in Evergreen, Washington, contacts her. But Destiny’s adoptive mother is distrustful and suspects Bella’s motives. Despite her mother’s misgivings, Destiny accepts Bella’s invitation to visit so that they can get to know each other. Henry, a local bookstore owner, takes Destiny under his wing, despite the fact that his nephew, Gavin Cambridge, doesn’t think the struggling bookstore is worth saving. He’s more interested in pursuing Bella. A crisis at the bookstore binds these characters together in ways none of them anticipated.