Making It Home, the third novel in the Jackson's Pond, Texas series, the Jackson family saga, returns to the Texas Panhandle town of Jackson's Pond and the nearby Jackson Ranch. In early September, 2014, MELANIE JACKSON BANKS learns from her grandmother's diary from the 1920s that her great-grandfather participated in killing a black man on the Jackson Ranch. Soon after Melanie's discovery, a parent at her preschool spouts racist threats and demands a refund. Vandalism in town and at the ranch suggests Ku Klux Klan activity in the county, threatening the efforts of mayor RAY BANKS, Melanie's husband, to engage the community in reviving the town of Jackson's Pond. JUSTIN REESE, son of a neighboring ranch family and an increasing number of like-minded men build a center for the Klan-like actions and criminal schemes such as drug and arms sales which are intended to disrupt positive changes in the area and fund the Klan activities. Melanie aims to atone for the family's part in the near century-old killing and to assure safety and freedom from threat and harm for those in Jackson's Pond. Danger in the area escalates from vandalism to cross-burning; slaughter of prime livestock; homophobic threats against Melanie and Ray's son, CHRIS BANKS and his partner, ANDREW MULLINS; domestic violence and a subsequent rescue of Justin Reese's wife and children; and kidnapping of the Havlicek and Montoya children. In the midst of this stormy period, Melanie accedes to her mother, WILLA JACKSON's, wishes and gives her away in marriage to her long-time companion, ROBERT STANLEY, who has become Melanie's ally as she forges a path to be a force for reconciliation with the family of LINCOLN BERRYHILL, the man killed in 1920.

She finds strength and resolve as she enlists her mother; her daughter, CLAIRE HAVLICEK; her African American friend and colleague, DOLORES MONTOYA; NANCY REESE; SUE JANE GOODMAN, and others to accomplish those aims.