The Hawthorne Bush blurs the line between dreams and reality. During the day, Angela is a loving mother and a dutiful wife, but at night, her dreams take on epic proportions. While her marriage is crumbling, she finds true love in the most unlikely place...in her dreams. Is it all a secret wish buried deep in her subconscious, or is this other world somehow real? Hank appears in her sleeping hours-a sweet and unassuming caretaker of a beautiful nursery in a very familiar location. The two fall deeply in love among the flowers he tends, and Angela struggles to remember where she met this man before. The tension between dreams and reality increases when Angela's husband reaches out to her in an attempt to rescue their marriage. Angela is torn between the man of her dreams and a less-than-perfect reality. Finally, secrets of a frightful past are revealed on a trip to Ashtabula County, and Angela discovers her dream man's identity. Will she choose her present life or a love that breaks all boundaries and understandings?