Nora is a young woman with no husband and two kids. She is stranded in Virgin River, but getting a lot of help from the people in the community. Wanting to take care of her family, she tries for a job picking apples at the Cavanaugh Apple Farm. Tom turns her down, but his grandmother overrides him. Nora has to work hard and Tom looks down on her for the choices and mistakes she's made. Tom's looking for a woman to love and thinks he has a perfect choice in the widow of one of his men. Even though the woman looks perfect, Tom realizes that Nora is the person that fits. 
 The end feels abrupt, but that might be the nature of a long-run series. Subplot is obviously setting up the next book, but it's kind of odd to leave the one story completely to look-in on a story that, otherwise, isn't connected (other than manipulative women and the military). I kept thinking there'd be some connection.