Maggie's life has been filled with adventure and adversity, from nearly losing her husband to a cougar attack, to her hunting the cat down on the desert and killing it. Faced with an empty nest and besieged at an early age in her middle fifties by near blindness, the effects of cataracts, life's surprises aren't finished with her yet. When she tragically witnesses the accident that claims her husband's life, she is drawn into a self-protective state of hysterical amnesia. When Maggie regains her memory and returns to the ranch in the Arizona desert, she brings the homeless woman who took her under her protective wing along with her. Once home again, she is reunited with a man who has loved her for years, her late husband's best friend. Her life may hold more promise now, with a planned wedding in the majestic Chiricahua Mountains when the mystical bird, the Coppery Tailed Trogon, returns to nest in the month of April.