Elise didn't want to be in the town at all-and certainly not in the scrapbooking shop. A month after Elise Shelton and her family arrive in Forest Falls, Oregon, she wanders into Rebekah Graham's scrapbooking store. Elise deems Rebekah too perky and judges scrapbooking to be another never-gets-done chore, but she's also drawn to the community of women who gather to crop their photos, lay out pages, and share their lives.