This book tells the story of Phoebe, a recent widow from a cave-in at the mine. Her Shaker background is something that certain people in the town are more than happy to hold against her. She feels that the people weren't bad, they just were misguided in their beliefs. Now that her husband is gone, she runs the mercantile that is run by the mining company. Her future rests in the hands of the new owner.
Adrian is on the run. He's hoping that he'll be able to fade into the background as the new owner of the mine, but he discovers that the more privacy he desires, the more attention he draws to himself. He tries to stay away from Phoebe, for her own sake as much as his, but circumstances don't make that possible. They end up working together to solve problems with the treatment of the Chinamen, find out about an opium problem and try to solve murders.
I enjoyed this book. I found that Phoebe and her friends struck me as a little "holier than thou" at times, and I thought that Adrian was almost a little too cowardly at times. The end also seemed a little rushed. Even with these minor issues, I found myself wanting to find out if Adrian makes peace with his past and if he and Phoebe can get together.
I purposely looked at the names involved in the first book to see if I would feel like I was missing anything by reading them out of order. While I saw the names and read a little of their background, I didn't feel like it would be an absolute necessity to read them in order. While I'm still not sure why these were on my watch list, I was glad that I got a chance to read this book and look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy, Spring of My Love, which seems to be about characters that I didn't read anything about it in this book. Book 1, Light of My Heart, is still on my watch list. Good Book!
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