Thirty-four year-old Jill Benson struggles to carve out a life for herself and her twin teens as owner of a small resort in Central Oregon, Pine Lake Retreat. Her husband, an aid worker, died a victim of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Jill vows never to marry another man who risks his life at his family's expense. Chainsaw carver and cowboy Rick Sawyer, Jill's sometime handyman, a maverick with a past, doesn't fit into her plans for the future. She sets her matrimonial sights on her kids' dentist. Moved to bring Muslims to Christ, Jill begins an Internet ministry, a Jihad for Jesus. When a radical Islamist learns of her outreach, the lives of Jill and her children are in danger. Rick becomes intricately entangled in her life, along with his two teenagers. Rick's son is unknowingly drawn into the terrorist plot that would end in the boy's death, and the death of the woman Rick has come to love. Radicals killed Jill's father and her husband. Will radicals destroy Jill and her children too?
