Maura McKnight-Parker was a free spirit until her world was shaken to the core when her teenage daughter, Layla, died in a car accident. Nine months later, she's struggling to keep her bookstore and coffeehouse afloat and has become a recluse. Her only regular contact is with her oldest daughter, Sage, a sophomore in college. When Sage comes home for the holidays, she announces that she has found her birth father. Jackson Lange, Maura's first love, broke her heart two decades earlier and then left town without a word. With no forwarding address, Maura couldn't even tell him she was pregnant. Jackson never knew that he'd left the love of his life pregnant when he fled their small town. Now they are all back, but Sage has her own secret - one that will test the fragile bonds of a reunited family. Thrown together by circumstances and dedicated to those they love, Maura and Jackson must learn to move forward and let go of mistakes of their past if they want a chance at a bright future in Hope's Crossing.