When her father remarries, LeNay Parkins finds her home so impossibly changed that she feels she can no longer stay. As she bravely sets out in search of a new life, she is overcome with illness the moment she steps off the bus in a strange town. Alone and frightened, LeNay accepts a kind offer from a passerby to recuperate at her home. The name of this stranger is Alexandra Byrnehouse-Davies. Alexa is a widow whose spacious home and heart have more than enough room for LeNay.
In time, LeNay forms a unique bond with Alexa’s two grandsons. Then war comes between them. Time and again, happiness seems to slip through LeNay’s fingers, as she encounters a series of losses that cut into her soul and wear away at her faith.