Everything happens for a reason, and although Isabelle thinks her meeting on the beach with a lonely elderly man is random, he turns out to be a pivotal character in the surprising direction her life takes after she marries her college sweetheart. Beautiful and artistically talented, Isabelle finds an unlikely group of "family" to love and support her when tragedy enters her life, announced by the premonition of a legendary figure on the beach. Life goes on, as it will, but can Isabelle accept a second chance at true love? Follow Isabelle and her new friends of the two and four legged variety, and discover how she survives a year of potentially debilitating stressors to find happiness where she never imagined.