After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York where he comes across a family secret of epic proportions. A year after a devastating miscarriage, David's cousin Marla has continued to struggle. But David's horrified to discover that she's been secretly raising a child who is not her own--a baby she claims was a gift from an "angel" left on her porch. When the baby's real mother is found murdered, David can't help wanting to investigate.