Struggling to maintain her families' privacy, Katie Salem escapes her small, hometown in search of the comfort of anonymity for the summer with her two kids. Still struggling with her husband's death two years ago, she sets out to remodel a run-down, family owned, lake cabin in North Dakota. Along the way, she enlists the help of an old friend, Jase Preston, and together they embark on a journey, to find out if the relationship they experienced as teenagers could possibly fit their lives today. Both widowed, and single parents, they bond over their common ground. As they fall in love, life is perfect, until a life and death incident destroys it all in one, foul swoop, leaving them both to wonder if you can ever, truly, go back.