Almost all of the story takes place before Thanksgiving with the story ending as the main characters feeling their Thanksgiving is especially blessed, thus the title.
She is a young widow with two precocious twins who are cute, and smart and the only time you don’t have to watch them is when they are asleep. She is determined to make the orchard inherited from her grandfather support them. He has just moved to the neighborhood having inherited his uncle’s farm. The community is watching him very carefully — his uncle was a drunk so…
Her name is Becca King and he is Nathan Mueller.