Cassie Barnes has set out on a journey to find a home and community she can belong to. She has definite ideas about what that journey will be like, calm, peaceful, and definitely not the drug bust she stumbles into when she stops for lunch. The kindness of the police officer who steers her out of harms way impresses her, and makes her believe there are more good and decent people at her destination. When Cassie purchases a house in a small town on the back side of Lake Winnipesaukee she unleashes a series of unbelievably bizarre and violent events that leave her reeling in disbelief. Struggling to understand she is about to get an unlikely ally in the form of the new police chief of Stanton, Kyle Braden. A Journey Begun is a tribute to the stubborn determination of a young woman who only wants to belong.