The lovely characters in this series return. It is five years after the events of the last book.
It is 1945, the end of the war. Most of the men have been fighting, but Bill is the only one who stayed at home because during the tornado he was inuured and lost an eye. He feels unhappy about this but the women keep telling him that it would have been very difficult to run the farm if he had been away.
A car approaches the farm, and Dovey and Evalyn are afraid that it is a communication from hte army about one of their men. The worry turns into elation when they discover Gabe, who announces that the war is over. Yet, he has bad news for Evalyn: Robert is missing. Evalyn takes the news stoically and states that Robert is not dead. Or else, she would know in her heart.
Elmer has been in the war as well, and the day of Japan's surrender, he finds himself in Times Square and then Tiny appears before him. They reach for each other, and before they return to Quails Crossing, they get married at a registry office. When the pair arrive and announce the news, Dovey is not happy, and she says that they will have to marry in church. So a week later Tiny and Elmer tie the knot before the family.
When they are celebrating their marriage, Dovey sees a woman appears with a girl. The woman explains that she is from the United States Children's Bureau, and the girl she has with her is Ellie Brewer. Ellie is the youngest sister, and her parents abandoned her as a baby in a doctor's office because they thought she was dying. Now the Children's Bureau has found out where her family are, and they think that she should be with then. The problem with Ellie is that she can't talk. The family welcome her, and Evalyn reemembers her and she has always felt guilty because she wanted to find her when her parents left.
Evalyn seems to have had a hard life, and when she is treated kindly by Dovey and the others, she works hard to do her best, so that she can stay. I wonder if the reason why Ellie can't talk is beause she can't physically or mentally. I am also curious where she hads been all this time.
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