When a late-term miscarriage derails her life, Cassidy questions what it means to be a mother. Grief illuminates the weaknesses in her marriage, forcing her to mend her rocky relationship with her own mother. Her work as a veterinarian specialising in equine reproduction doesn''t offer distraction either, with one of her cases reawakening her pain. Then Cassidy becomes unexpectly pregnant again, but the joy is tempered by her fear of another loss and her troubled marriage. Finally On their ''babymoon'' to North Carolina, a hurricane derails her plans and threatens her family''s safety.