Welcome to Cedar Cove – a small town with a big heart! Grace Sherman was happy and untroubled – until her husband just disappeared. What could be so awful that a devoted husband and father would go without a note or a warning?

But life can – and does – go on. Cedar Cove is abuzz with gossip. Grace's daughter Kelly just had a baby. And it looks like her eldest daughter Maryellen is seeing someone new, someone she's keeping a secret...

Then there's Jack, who's been pursuing a romance with Olivia, and Zach and Rosemary Cox, who're having a few problems. And Grace's own mystery – will she ever find out what happened to her husband?