A lifelong bachelor adjusting to marriage for the first time at 63, he has no perspective on his faith and future until he and his new wife, Cynthia, are lost-and found-in a cave on a youth-group camping trip. Episcopal minister Timothy Kavanagh of Lord's Chapel is the pivotal character. Mitford is a Southeastern mountain town where everyone turns out for benefactress Sadie Baxter's birthday, where the police chief gives copies of Southern Living to inmates-and where social trouble brews in a hillbilly enclave across the creek. Allusions to past events and cameos by peripheral characters will delight the fan but may frustrate the reader new to Karon's work.
This third in the Mitford series (At Home in Mitford-a 1996 ABBY Book of the Year finalist-and Light in the Window) is another sympathetic portrayal of small-town Southern life with just enough drama to carry the plot and gracefully developed portraits of endearing characters.
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