Hope Masterson, who first appears in the popular Tillamook Tillie series, is an independent-minded ex-Marine and current self-defense instructor in the seaside community of Bannoch, Oregon. Recently married to Reverend Gideon Hopkins (introduced in Mrs. Thistlethwaite and the Whippersnapper), a former Army Ranger, Hope finds herself on unusually shaky ground as she adjusts to the unfamiliar challenges facing a pastor's wife. Although the members of...