When Porter Call, an eighteen year old discharged soldier, inherits his Army buddy's estate during World War II, he becomes the guardian of thirteen year old Ruthie Edmonds. Over the course of time, their lives become entangled together with obstacles that help him to understand and accept the importance of true love, life, and the meaning of self sacrifice.

When Evan Williams, an eighteen year old girl from a small town in Mississippi is unexpectedly accepted to Yale, she meets a student by the name of Layland Justice who holds a secret of his own and lets her in on a two thousand year old prophecy that forces Evan to make the ultimate decisions between good versus evil and loving him or doing the right thing.