When Heidi Hathaway suffers an accident that leaves her unable to negotiate the stairs in her multi-level condo, she moves into the cozy complex where her friend Piper lives and continues to heal five years after Jared failed to come home from Afghanistan.

Jillian Galloway is an expert on marriage with a successful radio talk show, but when her husband of twenty-five years asks for a divorce she doesn't know how to cope with the upheaval in her life and she flees to her parents' desert home.