Lois and Chris are eager to settle into a calm married life, but that won’t happen. While Green continues to recover from a horrendous tornado, the state of Louisiana announces plans to close Green’s schools, citing poor academic performance and the area’s shrinking population. Lois and Chris know the loss will crush the community and harm students forced to travel more than an hour to classes.

Despite warnings from her coach husband, Lois gets in the middle of the controversy, butting heads with a new teacher, who appears to be a spy for bureaucrats, and pushing the state Legislature with Mayor Eva and Molly, who walks to Baton Rouge in protest. The hotshot consultant sent in to monitor the school is none other than Mayor Eva’s long-ago, almost-forgotten ex-husband, mixing up Eva’s renewed friendship with Dub McCuller. The district’s legal woes bring attorney Terrence to town, much to Dr. Kevin’s delight. The highway continues to creep forward, raising more doubts about the future of Green, and Lois learns that to make lasting changes, she will have to refuse to conform but be transformed.

Judy Christie worked as a journalist for 25 years before turning her talents to writing and consulting. In addition to her first three highly acclaimed novels, Gone to Green, Goodness Gracious Green, and The Glory of Green she is the author of Hurry Less, Worry Less and Hurry Less, Worry Less at Christmastime. Judy lives in northwest Louisiana.