After Annie Colwater's husband finds another woman, she goes home to the Olympic Peninsula and falls in love with a widower with a daughter. On discovering she is pregnant--by her husband--she returns to the husband, but he wants no part of her, or their child. Will the widower take her back?

When Annie Colwater's only child leaves for college and her husband abandons her for a younger woman, Annie retreats to her hometown of Mystic, Washington. With the help of her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower, Annie attempts to reclaim the woman she once was while learning how to love without losing herself.