Lauren Parker is reeling from the dissolution of her marriage. Her ex-husband has come out of the closet and left her for a male partner. With no family of her own to turn to, she packs herself and her two children far from their home state of Texas, taking a public relations job in Colorado.

Now, even more alone, she becomes a tiny boat adrift in a sea of confusion. Then John David Cameron enters her life. Hope and security seem just around the corner, but then the unexpected happens.