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Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughter Caroline's wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a painstakingly made wedding quilt designed to display the signatures of beloved guests.

In 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms. Thus the women of Elm Creek Valley's quilting bee are propelled into the unknown.

When her wayward sister abandons her baby, quiltmaker Esther Zook suddenly finds herself a single mother and catches the eye of an eligible young man who's been making both repairs to her house--and to her heart.

Nell's future is on her mind, and it looks as though the pieces are coming together like a perfectly made quilt. Her relationship with police chief Jesse Dewalt is heating up, she's thinking of starting her own business, and Grandma Eleanor is about to get hitched. But just the future seems sewn up, Jesse's former NYPD partner turns up - dead. Nell has to scramble to keep the wedding on track, her relationship from falling apart, and herself from...