Doctor Claire Hollister, pretty and at the peak of her professional career, has quit a dead marriage, left a thriving mainland medical practice, and moved to remote Nantucket Island. Claire and her teenage daughter Katie are starting over alone and friendless. They are doing well in the new lives they have worked hard to create until murder and Leo, a man nearly as removed from life as Claire, change everything. Against the backdrop of serene and beautiful Nantucket, the killers and their crimes are more evil; but, the awakening love between Claire and Leo is rekindling a sure sense of hope in each of them.