A fierce storm brings together three people--Quinn Thompson, a widower; his neighbor, Maggie Dartman, grieving over a loss; and Jack Adams, the carpenter brought in to repair both of their homes--in a friendship that will transform their lives.

The reader is taken on a journey through a neighborhood and shown the sights, sounds, and smells as evening approaches.

Harts Crossing is a small town with a lot of heart. In Home to Harts Crossing, fiction lovers will find four touching stories of love and reconciliationstories of a mother and daughter, first loves separated by war, a girl who longs for a father, and the overburdened new parents of twins. Celebrating family, faith, and forgiveness, Home to Harts Crossing will warm readers hearts and soothe their spirits.

Mel is bored with her life, until the elderly woman next door is nearly murdered, and she sets out to find who is responsible by investigating her neighbors, including the handsome, but mysterious, man who has come to dog sit for his comatose aunt.

Jessie is new to her neighborhood, and when she needs to find her way to the library, she asks for help from her neighbor, Sara, who uses a computer to make a map then teaches Jessie how to use it. Includes activities.