For the Bridges family, September's legacy is one of change. This year is no exception. As Brenda embraces the hard life of a poor farmer's wife, Amberley's storybook romance is threatened by recurring illness-and her intended's seeming ambivalence about setting a wedding date. Sam, meanwhile, is coming to grips with his status as an aging warrior, a veteran without a place in the world. But it is Lien who catapults the family into crisis when a misguided vow sends her best friend into danger in the dark, forgotten woods on the edge of Old Sodus. When he goes missing, the search uncovers a decades-old mystery and brings everyone face-to-face with the grace that attends their lives.