Gillian Jones is a thirty-three-year-old probation officer. A few years previous, she survived a car accident that shattered her ankle and her first marriage. Now she’s remarried and walking again and life would be perfect – if only she could get pregnant.

When Gillian and her husband decide not to continue with fertility treatment, Gillian’s mother-in-law and one of the county commissioners hatch a plan: Gillian will earn money for fertility treatment by finding the biological parents of the county commissioner’s adopted daughter, Caroline. It seems Caroline had been left at a monastery in 1967 and shortly thereafter was delivered to Bend Brook, Nebraska by the county commissioner’s Purina dealer. Unfortunately, when Gillian arrives in Colorado no one at the monastery remembers any such event – or so they say. When a monk goes missing and the woman who’s sleeping in the bed reserved for Gillian is murdered, Gillian has second thoughts. She can’t turn back, though, since most of Bend Brook has taken bets on whether she’ll be able to solve the case.

As she uncovers events that lead to the discovery of Caroline’s true identity, Gillian realizes that the perfect family might be the one you already have . . .