Lucille Howard is a lady in years, but thanks to the encouragement of her friend Arthur Trudy, she opened the baking school. The students share their secrets of preparing the southern sponge cake, perfect Christmas winds and other sweet goodies. She teaches men, women and children and has become so popular that she has to find an assistant. Iris, a new resident of Mason, hires this work. Iris can't bake but she needs to be employed so she doesn't have to think of things that she regrets so much in her life.

The young married couple moves to the neighborhood, there will be a tragic event, and Lucille begins to take care of their little son Lincoln. However, his parents are not the only inhabitants of Mason who face the uncertain future. In heavy times, however, they can get together and find the power of real belonging, when they need it most. The Night of Miracles is a novel that warms you at the heart and reminds you that the people we love often can surprise us.