Memories of one magical night had kept Evan Jorgenson sane during his tour in Iraq. When he meets Cassie Hamilton again in Lake Placid, he yearns to pick up where they left off. She deserves more than a shell-shocked soldier. But Cassie's in danger, and in order to keep her safe, he's jeopardizing not only his job as a NYS police officer, but a dream promotion. If only she'd talk about what happened in L.A... After three years away, the spunky, young chocolatier is back in Dewitt, NY rebuilding her life in order to regain custody of her young daughter.

Time: 1758

In Volume II of the Adirondack Green trilogy, the people of a small American town respond to the dying forest, and the death of one of their sons in Iraq.

In Volume III of the Adirondack Green trilogy, the townspeople of Balsam Corners host more than 100 disabled veterans and their families for a week in July.

Love and family are more important than money or career accomplishments. When Isabelle Weston takes leave from work to help her brother, Finn, overcome the depression he's been in since losing his legs, Isabelle's mother convinces her that spending time at the family's lake lodge in the Adirondacks is just the thing Finn needs to regain perspective and start over. She also believes that the surest way to keep him there is to invite along his best friend, Mateo Elizondo. The trouble is that Mateo is also Isabelle's former fiancée.