Where the Heart Lands is the story of Lucy Litchfield, a middle-aged woman who reinvents her life after a suicide attempt, and Addie, a young girl with a dark past. Lucy and Jack are married 25 years when she finds out he has fathered a child with a much younger woman. When forced to live in the same house as her estranged husband, Lucy circles a dark abyss, ruminating on her failed life choices and unable to see the future. Hope arrives just in time when Lucy learns that she has inherited an old farmhouse in southeastern Minnesota from her beloved, eccentric great-aunt. She decides to make the move, but begins to regret it when the locals prove to be less than friendly, until she meets her quirky new neighbor Addie Oswald. Young Addie survives brutal sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle, after her parents abandon her to follow God's will. A kind hobo helps her escape, giving her a new name and finding her a family "far away." She thrives in the care of a Mennonite couple, eventually finding true love with a handsome Mennonite man. Together they begin raising their children and build a life on the family farm in southern Minnesota, right next door to the same house that Lucy later inherits. When the two women meet, they fuel a passion that could save the one, but destroy the other. Will they find shelter or destruction in this ramshackle home on the prairie?