After Isabella Caccavale's Aunt Clara marched into her Hartford marketing firm and announced, "God told me to retire and sell my general store in Evergreen--to you," Isabella's life plunged into a tailspin. Fourteen months later, as the new owner of Mahoney's General Store, she's explaining the benefits of goat's milk soap to a customer on the phone while keeping an eye on a seven-year-old prankster intent on hauling the huge jar of dill pickles off the counter.

"Runaway" Boston lawyer Sidney Prescott is hard-driven, a man burdened by high expectations and a demanding family legacy....