When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to restore her sister's old house. As they work side by side, the promise of love blooms again.

This wholesome family story begins with the question of whether a white Southern family could adopt their Negro friends' surviving child in the 1940s. Was this the child that was promised to Eunice Miller, or was her out-of-body experience not really a visit to heaven, but only a dream?