Inn owners Pam and Mark Walker's plans to expand their business are interrupted when they learn a priceless painting depicting two local churches has disappeared, along with one of the churches, and as they find pieces of the missing church in strange places around town they wonder what danger has come to Lumby.

The tale centers around newcomer Tom Candor replacing the town's beloved veterinarian. He's frowned upon because he keeps to himself, but he does catch the heart of carpenter Mackenzie McGuire. Then there's Pam and Mark Walker, suddenly swarming with new dinner customers at their inn after a hot magazine review has foodies from across the country venturing to Lumby while the monks who sold the inn to the Walkers begin getting daily deliveries of exotic...

Turning a humorous but insightful lens on the value of truth - within families and within a community - Pam Walker steps off the mayoral campaign trail to return to her childhood home, where she discovers that she is not "alone" in the world. A quirky guise lures an unsuspecting sister to Montis Inn where new relationships are tested, and a husband becomes dangerously lost in Lumby. Pam also learns what happens when post-truth politics plow down Main...