Martha's life in the city wasn't going as she had planned. When her family learns of the sudden passing of their emotionally distant father in the deteriorating little town of Amnesty, their former hometown, they designate Martha to go back and "clean up the mess Dad left behind. Someone's got to do it " She reluctantly agrees to go. Deciding to use this as an opportunity to re-examine her life she soon finds that old friends, some unexpected family members and the Green People are working together to keep her in Amnesty far longer than she ever intended.

Martha, Ted and Apollo are back in this second book of the Amnesty series. The road to their goal of becoming a family has some bumps, while the town of Amnesty experiences some twists of its own.

Searching for the fabled Timberline People leads to the discovery of a whole new culture - the culture of the Treagle.