A small town waitress is struggling to survive in a state of poverty and depression after her family tragically dies, leaving her to raise her sister’s illegitimate child. With little hope of going to college or becoming an artist, Mia Miller lives out her days just waiting for Abby to grow up so she can free herself of the burdens of life. Jase Taylor is a self-confirmed bachelor with an obsessive fear of relationships who arrives in town as a structural engineer working on the new hospital. Immediately, he feels some magnetic pull to the damaged young woman, but knowing he could never commit to her or be the man she deserves, he fights the urge to pursue her. Fate has other plans as their lives become tangled in a web of deceit and tragedy that rocks their self-perceptions and forces them both to confront their demons, as well as each other.