New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to charming Swift River Valley, where springtime is the period for clean starts and new beginnings.

Kylie Shaw offers found a home and a calm place to work as an illustrator of children’s books in small Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. Nobody seems to know her here-and she wants it that way. She carefully guards her privacy in the restored nineteenth-century hat factory where she’s a loft. And California private investigator Russ Colton about The Spring at Moss Hill moves in.

Russ is within Knights Bridge to hold his client and friend, eccentric Hollywood outfit developer Daphne Stewart, out of trouble. Keeping tabs on Daphne while she considers starting a little children’s theater in town doesn’t look like a tough job-until he incurs Kylie. Her opposition to converting part of the older hat factory right into a theatre is a challenge. But the bigger challenge gets Kylie to allow loose a little, like the daring people she depicts in her work.

Kylie and Russ have more in keeping than they or anyone else would ever expect. They’re both looking for a place to belong, and if they’re able to let go of past errors and figure out how to trust once again, they might simply discover what they need-including each other.