Aspiring actress Miranda Potter has come home to Cape Light, Massachusetts, to be with her aging grandmother, Sophie, and help with the apple orchard. Her side vocation is making signature jewelry. On this cold December night, their dog, Dixie, whines and barks until Miranda finds a man unconscious with blood on his forehead. Helping this man to the house reveals he has amnesia and changes her life forever. Adam, a chosen name by Miranda, is the subject of a statewide search to learn his identity. Fearing that Adam could be a murderer or even married with kids of his own, Miranda still falls in love with him.

Elsewhere in town, Molly Willoughby-Harding is overwhelmed with making her catering business a success. Raising two daughters alone, Molly has recently married Matt, a successful doctor, who also has a daughter. Their two oldest girls are about to begin college. Molly becomes very frustrated upon discovering that she's pregnant at her age and at this stage in her life. It's totally unexpected and not met with the same enthusiasm by Molly as is it by her husband and girls. Matt decides to bring in an old classmate as partner in his practice to allow him more time with Molly and the baby. The classmate, naturally, is a gorgeous, talented female doctor and has Molly and her hormones visualizing Matt having an affair with his new partner.

As Reverend Ben is helping Carl, the church sexton, move some boxes because of Carl's hand injury, they discover a crate in the basement that is not familiar to either of them. After opening the crate, a beautiful carved wooden angel is revealed that they decide to put in the sanctuary for Christmas decoration. When Carl spreads the rumor that his infected, injured hand was healed overnight after touching the angel, the "miracle" spreads and ailing people come from all over to leave their little bits of paper with prayers on them at the base of the angel. Ben blesses the requests with respect, but can neither deny or agree with the miracles of the statue that are materializing in abundance from people claiming to be "healed." Ben believes the miracle is a product of the power and faith in God.

Each family involves other members of this beautiful fairy- tale town. The characters are your normal everyday neighbors with their good and bad sides. You soon learn to love Cape Light and its residents. The love and closeness the statue brings to the town renews the spirit and belief in miracles and in people themselves. Several simultaneous plots relate a warm, fuzzy feeling full of love and new beliefs with the reader. This is a must-read novel written by two very talented authors.

Book Summary

Christmas comes again to the little town of Cape Light.

Molly Willoughby-Harding has a beautiful home, a husband, family, and friends, and a blossoming new business - so why is she unhappy? Just as her life is starting to take off, she's pregnant again - and she's going to have to confront her previous notions of what she truly needs to be happy, in order to recapture that elusive Christmas spirit...

Meanwhile, Miranda Potter has found an injured man who's lost his memory. As she nurses him back to health an unexpected attraction develops. Can Miranda let uncertainty back into her life just as things finally start making sense?

And when Reverend Ben finds a wooden angel statue, word spreads that it holds miraculous powers, turning his peaceful church into a tourist attraction - and making it seem more of a burden then a blessing. But what he discovers is that he's given the people of Cape Light the best Christmas gift of all.