Hope Robertson is an active, middle-aged Midwesterner with breast cancer. She’s determined to beat the illness, but her doctors can’t cure her. When there's nothing left to do but wait to die, Hope's husband Dylan convinces her to throw caution to the wind — they quit their jobs, sell the house, and embark on a cross-country journey. Mixed with the carefree days of their adventures, though, are unresolved emotions that Hope still carries with her from tragic events of her past.
Shelly McCarthy is an intelligent, up-and-coming East Coast track star with a bright future. But her world comes to a grinding halt when her parents die in a car accident on the night of her Senior Prom. After the funerals, Shelly learns that she’s adopted. With exhaustive detective work, and even illegal maneuvering, she uncovers the identity of one of her birth parents. With this information in hand, Shelly sets out to discover the past she never knew she had.
