VIRGIN RIVER

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.

Young, widowed reverend Noah Kincaid buys the abandoned church in Virgin River, California, and hires Ellie Baldwin to help him get the building back in shape, not realizing that the brassy and beautiful woman, who needs the job in order to win her children back from foster care, is going to steal his heart.

Sean Riordan, a U-2 pilot stationed at Beale Air Force Base in Northern California, split with Franci Duncan four years ago because he was not ready to settle down, but when he bumps into her in Virgin River he discovers his feelings for her are still strong, and when he learns he has a three-year-old daughter, he knows he must find a way to earn Franci's trust and win her heart again.