Sometimes a person has to leave home, even if that home is the most marvelous place she s ever lived, even if her mother will be diagnosed with terminal cancer, and her beloved farmer, a man she s loved for years asks her to marry him. Janice Westfahl feels called to publicize Godspeed Books, a small evangelical publisher outside Chicago, a good thousand miles away from upstate New York. The job fits her, a woman who loves God and books. But Janice finds herself working with Jeremiah Sackfield, a radical right-wing activist, who toys with revolution. Even though she is a brilliant publicist, Janice feels like she is betraying herself by promoting a cause she doesn t believe in. Like the elder brother in the Prodigal Son story, her brother has stayed home, furious his sister has dodged the painful months of his mother s dying, while earning their father s favor. When her father dies, they must settle the estate with this jealousy flickering between them."