Jane McElliott, a twenty-five year old writer, has moved to the big city in search of solitude and the chance to be alone. As she runs from her past, she meets Homer Callihan; a newly widowed ex-publisher who isn’t ready to be single again.
When the two meet by chance, their plans change; leaving Homer to wonder about living without the love of his life and Jane to doubt the solitary life she’d always dreamed of.
As they deal with life, loneliness and loss, they try and find out how to love in a world where literary romances aren’t necessarily real life and where bad things can happen to good people.