Hope and healing are often connected. At times, we wonder whether the hurt is too deep to overcome. Do we move on or do we curl up and die inside? Some do both. Most move on. Sydney Holmes was in a state of depression, yet with an unusual employment position, she is thrown into a totally different lifestyle and working relationship that she has ever known. Does she open herself up to her employer, Jason Jamieson, or does she move forward in her focus of recovering from a devastating loss. The book starts with Sydney reminiscing to Jason, who is in a coma after an accident, on how she came to stumble upon an advertisement for a live-in housekeeper and secretary. Life dramatically changes for Jason with this new arrangement and at times it is difficult for him to consider Sydney. Their relationship is plutonic despite his feelings for her.