Jamie Monroe owns the "Chocolate Bar," a chocolate shop on a no-name street in Heart Lake, Washington. "Sweet Somethings Bakery," owned by Jamie's aunt, Sarah Goodwin, is in the same area as is "Emma's Quilt Corner," which is owned by Jamie's best friend, Emma Swanson. Each woman has an ache in her heart right now.

Jamie has just returned to Heart Lake following a brief and abusive marriage to a Los Angeles cop, who enjoyed using his wife as a punching bag. The Chocolate Bar is doing well, thank goodness, and she has sworn off of men, so no worry about personal problems.

Sarah is grieving over her daughter's family moving to upstate New York. She misses her granddaughters, Katie and Adeline, something fierce. Sarah and her husband Sam now have an empty nest for sure, which Sam sees as a new adventure for them.

Emma's Quilt Corner isn't making ends meet, but Emma doesn't want her family or Jamie and Sarah to know this. She knows that by the first of the year she will have to close her shop and spend the next umpteen years paying off her business loans. Like Jamie, Emma goes home to an empty house at night, but unlike her friend, Emma would love to have a man in her life.

At their weekly chocolate fix Jamie, Sarah, and Emma bemoan the fact that their town is growing too fast and has lost a lot of its charm and friendliness. They come up with the idea of holding a town meeting and suggesting that every citizen do one good deed a day. Sarah holds a cookie making class for four little girls, and this somewhat eases the pain of not seeing Katie and Addie on a daily basis. Jamie befriends two motherless little girls, but their father would like her attention also. Unfortunately, no matter how nice and good looking that he is, he is also a cop, and that's a no-no for Jamie. Emma takes pity on an elderly woman who always forgets her checkbook. This is a good deed Emma can't afford, and the "forgotten" checkbook story is getting old.

But, the good deed idea is catching on in the community, and comes full circle when Emma has a going-out-of-business sale. ANGEL LANE is now the name of the three friend's no-name-street and is also a beautifully written story that is populated with real and charming people.