Charles and Jocelyn Rutherford, content in their comfortable political and domestic lives in late nineteenth-century England, are startled to find that God has chosen another path for them
Estranged from her family, twenty-year-old Amanda Rutherford leaves Heathersleigh Hall for London, amid the dangers and excitement of the suffragette movement and an impending world war
With war raging around her, Amanda escapes across Europe and finds refuge at Sisters' Chalet in Switzerland, where she is helped to see her life in a new light
Amanda Rutherford's homecoming is complicated by thoughts of her future, but as she and her family wonder what God's plans are for them, He reveals His direction in unexpected ways, and all the secrets and mysteries of Heathersleigh Hall come to light.