On the idyllic shores of Flathead Lake, Montana, Alisen Embry finds purpose and comfort tending her late mother's cherry orchard adjacent to the family's beloved lake house. Though pained by the loss of her mother and her father's estrangement, it is Derick Whitney—the man she fell in love with four years earlier—who truly influences Alisen's view of her future . . . Derick and Alisen wanted nothing more than to spend eternity together; however, intolerance and secrets forced Alisen to make a shattering choice between her family and the man she loved.

But destiny always has a way of setting things right . . . Now the Embry family has found themselves hopelessly in debt, and they realize renting the lake house is the only hope of saving the cherished or- chard and family home. When Alisen discovers the new tenants have a connection to her past, her life takes an unexpected turn. Will fate find a way to reconnect what was broken so many years before?