Olivia Lockhart is a woman judge, who denies a divorce in court, and in her small town of Cedar Cove, makes big news because of the ruling.

Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy are back to intervene in human affairs this Christmas, as they respond to Anne Fletcher's prayer that her son Roy meet a special woman, reunite a divorced couple, bring peace of mind to an elderly man, and grant a little boy's fondest wish.

Bruce Peyton wonders where he went wrong. A widower, he worries that he has spoiled his thirteen-year-old daughter Jolene, and in doing so, caused so much tension and hostility in his home that his new (and pregnant) wife, Rachel, has left him. He struggles to regain her trust and to raise a daughter he can be proud of, because in Cedar Cove, nothing is more important than family.

Welcome to the town of Promise, deep in the heart of Texas! Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, has a mysterious past. Yet it's the kind of place that represents the strength of small-town and rural America. Because Promise is built on family and friendship. Hard work and endurance. Laughter and, above all, love. Wade McMillen might be a minister, but he's also a man. An unmarried and very attractive one. So is it as a man that he responds...