Mercy Falls Telephone Company operator, Katie Russell loves her job connecting callers to each other but her parents and businessman Bartholomew Foster have a different future mapped out for her. Katie is torn between the knowledge that an engagement to Mr Foster would secure her family’s financial future and the lack of emotional connection to the man himself.

Newcomer Will Jesperson has finally landed his dream job, as a lighthouse keeper, which will enable him to pursue his fascination with predicting weather and tide patterns. Plucking victims of a pirate attack from the sea is an unexpected and shocking task …