Carr, Robyn

Widow Macie Sullivan, having written many unanswered letters, travels to Virgin River for Christmas in search of Ian Buchanan, a marine who saved her husband in Fallujah four years earlier, and when she finally finds him, she realizes the man has emotional scars from war and tries to help him come to terms with his past.

Clare Wilson has had it with her husband's cheating, so when she finally kicks him to the curb, she feels a rush of unadulterated freedom. But when a freak car crash lands Clare in the hospital, her life takes another detour. She might be banged up and bruised, but suddenly men are coming out of the woodwork.

Mike Valenzuela, constable of the small town of Virgin River, searches for a rapist after his Marine buddy Jack Sheridan's youngest sister, a lawyer, is raped and beaten by the defendant in a case she prosecuted and several young girls in the community are attacked.

Melinda Monroe, desperate for a change after the death of her husband and too many years working at the county hospital in Los Angeles, answers an ad for a nurse practitioner/midwife in the small California town of Virgin River, but she arrives to find the pictures and promises the led her to take the job were all lies, and only the discovery of an abandoned infant on the doorstep of the town's elderly doctor convinces her of the need to stay.

Shelby McIntyre is ready to experience adventure and find the man of her dreams after caring for her terminally-ill mother for so many years, but when she visits Virgin River, she finds herself falling for the rugged and jaded Luke Riordan, an ex-Army pilot who is nothing like the man she had in mind.

Paige Lassiter shows up at John Middleton's bar one night covered in bruises, prompting the ex-marine to protect her and her young son against her vicious ex-husband.

Marine Paul Haggerty struggles with the decision to follow his heart and pursue a relationship with Vanni, the widow of one of his comrades who just gave birth to a son and whom he has always loved, or stand by his lover who is carrying his child.

Marine corporal Rick Sudder, a favorite son who has returned home to Virgin River after being wounded in Iraq, and Dan Brady, a man looking to leave his questionable past behind and start over, both find refuge in the small mountain town and in the love they never expected to find.

Thirty-five-year-old Erin Foley, having raised her younger siblings, decides to hole up in a secluded cabin near Virgin River to take stock of her life, but her plans to spend time meditating and journaling are disrupted by Aiden Riordan, a doctor recharging for a summer after being discharged from the military.