London Mercer has spent a year in Seattle leaving her grief, her hometown, and a set of unsigned divorce papers untouched.
A catastrophic flood destroys the main floor of The Colchuck Inn, her family’s century-old landmark in Leavenworth, Washington, and forces her back.
Harper, her almost-ex-wife, is already in town and willing to rebuild the inn before the December rush, but only if London finally signs.
What should be a clean transaction unravels through snowstorms, sawdust, late nights, and truths London has long buried.
Side by side with the woman she was ready to leave, she begins to see that she had their marriage wrong, and that the life she fled may still be worth fighting for.