When Karissa moves back home with her son to Juniper Ridge after her husband leaves her for another woman, she has visions of the comforts of home and her mother’s shoulder to cry on. But her mother’s health problems intrude and that fantasy whirls away. With everything else in front of her, the last thing on Karissa's mind is getting involved with someone new only weeks after her divorce has been finalized. High school history teacher and boys basketball coach, Marshall Willmore, has other plans.
