Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for college abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie is devastated. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was - the woman she is now desperate to become again.
In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, recently widowed and unable to cope with his grieving, silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal. But just when it seems Annie has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again and she is faced with a choice no woman should have to make.
