Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.

Reverend Stephen Drew is shattered when Alice Hayward is murdered by her husband just hours after being baptized and finds his faith in God slipping away, until he meets Heather Laurent, whose work studying angels helps Drew renew his spirituality in the face of a police investigation that suggests he may have been connected to Alice's death.

In Vermont, dowser Patience Avery is having a busy summer as wells dry up, and conservationists have to fight developers' plans to expand the local ski area and deplete the water table to dangerously low levels.