In the dead of winter, Peter Benton moved his wife Mae and their three daughters from sunny California to a remote town in New Hampshire called Jaffrey Center.
For Mr. Benton, the move was a happy, fulfilling experience in his Christian pathway, but for his daughters it was a devastating experience which they found almost impossible to accept.
Jennie, at seventeen, the oldest of the three girls, felt not only the loss of her home and friends the most, but realized the responsibility that was hers to be an example to Kara, fourteen, and her little sister Lisa, only six. But that realization did not come easily.
In Search of a Song is the story of how the Lord turned Jennie's rebellion and resentment into a song. Through two older couples in Jaffrey, the Adams and the Marshalls, the Lord began a slow but steady work in Jennie's life that was eventually to bring her far greater happiness than she could have known had she remained in the place of her own choosing.
When Stephen and Julia Marshall, the nephew and niece of the Marshalls in Jaffrey, came to stay, life changed abruptly. Erasing their gnawing homesickness, the close ties of friendship brought many treasured experiences.
In Search of a Song is also the story of a young girl growing into womanhood, seeking the fulfillment of a happy Christian marriage and learning to accept God's will for her life.