They were childhood sweethearts, their relationship starting in middle school during their angsty pre-teen years and continuing on through high school. To the outside world, they were the perfect couple. Their families grew close during the course of their relationship, both sets of parents convinced that the two would grow up, marry, and settle down to raise a family. The hitch in everyone’s plan came when Kaylee was accepted to college while her boyfriend was not. He kept tight-lipped about his plans for the future, keeping everything hidden from everyone, including her. Their families thought he would move with her after graduation, but when he vanished without a word the day after receiving his diploma, no one knew what to say.

His departure from her life left her heartbroken, but no less determined to head off to college to prepare for her own future. Oddly enough, it wasn’t her boyfriend who accompanied her, but her boyfriend’s older brother who decided that he would try to make up for the damage his younger brother caused. The two moved in together, both attending classes and working to support themselves. While they grew closer, they did not realize that the one person who had brought them together was off making a name for himself, one that did not connect him to the past that he left behind.

Four years pass and in that time her feelings for her first love never truly faded, but she has moved on to find the life she always wanted with his older brother. Shortly before graduating from college, he proposes to her, and she by all appearances happily says yes. The two plan to move back to their hometown to begin preparing for their wedding and the future that they’ve planned with one another.

However, fate has a way of destroying the best-laid plans. Shortly after the two settled in back home, the prodigal brother returns. He is devastated to learn that his former love has moved on, and not with just anyone. Betrayed by the woman he’d loved most of his life and his only sibling, he tries to move on as well, finding comfort in the arms of any woman he can find, but it’s never enough to erase his memories of the life he’d dreamed of with her at his side. Now he has a choice to make. Does he go back into the world and hope to find someone who can replace his first love in his heart? Or does he stay and try to convince her to give him another chance, while hurting his only brother?

Growing up in a small coastal town in Maine,Julianna (Juls) Wheaton thought she would live and die within the town's city limits, and growing up, she didn't care. She had met the love of her life in middle school, and thought she could be happy living the same life as her mother; living in the ocean side cottage she grew up in and taking care of guests who stayed at the family's bed and breakfast. It wasn't until her father was diagnosed with cancer that her dreams began to change. When her father passed away, Juls knew she had a mission in life and it wasn't catering to the needs of overanxious city folk in need of a break. Her mission was clear, but that path to it wasn't. She knew what she had to do, but it meant leaving behind the only boy she ever loved and the only home she'd ever known.

She stayed quiet about her plans until she could no longer keep them a secret. On her eighteenth birthday, just weeks before her high school graduation, Juls broke the news to her mother. After graduation, her destiny would no longer reside in their little town, but thousands of miles away at college, and then medical school to become an oncologist. Her mother was supportive, but Juls kept the news a secret from the love of her life until the day before she planned to leave. On their last day together, Juls spent every second with him, silently working up her courage to tell him that she was leaving him to become a doctor. As they said their goodbyes for the night, Juls remained silent as he walked back to his car to head back to his house. She couldn't tell him she was leaving, not to his face. Instead, she wrote him a letter, leaving it tucked into his front door as she drove out of town the next morning.

Leaving him behind was the hardest thing she had to do, and for the first five years, she kept to herself, avoiding dating and men. It was during the second year of medical school that she met a man, one who reminded her of her first love. Cautious, and believing that she didn't deserve a second chance at love, Juls and Sean dated for a full year before things started to get serious. Over the next two years they moved in together and by the end of their third year together got engaged. Money was tight with Juls going to school and Sean the only one working to support both of them, but they managed to have a small wedding. Life was good for them and it got even better once Juls graduated from medical school and landed a job with a thriving medical practice. They were living the dream; great jobs, great friends, and a happy marriage.

All of that came to a screeching halt with a phone call. Juls' mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In the early stages of the illness, she could still function, but she was struggling to keep the family business alive. Sean didn't hesitate to put in his notice to move across the country with his wife to help her take care of both her mother and the bed and breakfast that had kept the family afloat for decades. Juls didn't think too much about uprooting her life either, not until she stepped back into town to discover that her first love was there, married and with a family of his own.

(Not exactly a love triangle)They were best friends almost all of their lives, growing up on the same suburban street throughout childhood. When they graduated, they lost touch, he went off to do his thing, while she went off to do hers. A few years down the road, their paths cross again but he's quick to notice the changes in her and it doesn't take long to figure out the reason for them when her father calls to inform him that she is in the hospital. After convincing her to leave her abusive boyfriend, he offers to let her stay with him until she can get back on her feet again.

Tori Brent has a new stepfather, one that is far too young for her nearly fifty-year-old mother. To her, it's obvious that the man is after money, but after getting to know him, she learns that his reasoning isn't nearly as greedy. There are real feelings there, and Tori is determined to rip them to shreds and destroy her mother in the process.

Things hadn't always been that way though. Once upon a time, Tori's mother had been her role model, the woman that Tori wanted to grow up to be. However, when her father dies and leaves her the bulk of the family's fortune, her mother turns cold and it's Tori that suffers from it. The once loving daughter grows rebellious, doing everything in her power to hurt her mother the same way the woman had done to her. It's only a matter of time before Tori sets her sights on her love-struck stepfather. The question is, how long can he resist?