Welcome to Hawthorne, Texas, a place where many former citizens return, drawn to their hometown’s slower pace and family values, and finding lasting love and happiness.

A woman betrayed in the worst way by her husband. A man who has never fit in wherever he went. Together, they find a deep love which will heal and restore them …

Autumn Sutherland, a dedicated nurse, catches her doctor husband cheating on her with a colleague. Heartbroken, she divorces him and returns to her hometown for a fresh start. Once in Hawthorne, she accepts a position as Director of Nursing at the soon to open Hogan Health Hospital—Triple H—hoping to find new purpose in both her professional and personal life.

Celia Calthorp, Duchess of Acaster, is sick of always being on the edge of disaster. Now that widowhood has finally given her the freedom to make her own choices, she knows exactly what she needs to do—marry a rich man to secure her future and that of her beloved stables. And it’s all going to plan…until it isn’t.

Trouble follows the Garcia sisters, and this time a close family friend is in the hot seat. After Emily Ruiz Sanchez is killed in a shootout with police during a bank robbery in El Paso, Dr. Kate Garcia gets a call from a Houston lawyer. Seems the woman has left her sizeable inheritance to Kate and family friend, Benny Yates, who runs the Mission of Hope, a soup kitchen for the down and out citizens of Vineyard. The problem is—the Emily they knew lived on the streets of Vineyard and died of a drug overdose three months before.