Even the darkest shadows can cast hope. After two miscarriages and desperate pleading with the Lord, Sonja Rossi thinks her prayers have been answered. She finds a baby on the banks of Shady Springs Lake and persuades her husband to take part in a plan to keep the child. She confides her delicate predicament to her close friend, Mercedes Lewis, but murder threatens to rock her cradle of hope. Mercedes Lewis should be living her best life. She started a new job and is planning her wedding. Her preparations are shaken when her first love, Garrett King, arrives in Shady Springs and strangely pretends they've never met. His wife has also confided a secret of her own. Can Mercedes keep up with all the pretense or will harboring Shady Springs' secrets sever her from those she loves the most?