A devoted father devastated by the loss of his wife. A young widowed mother whose wounds began long before her husband died. Will their shared grief bring them together or keep them apart?

Ragnar's life was shattered when a hit-and-run driver robbed him of his wife and his four-year-old daughter of her mother.

Ella was struggling to hold her fractured marriage together when her husband died suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt and a heartbroken young daughter.

When her new neighbor Ragnar moves in, their little girls soon become inseparable, and Ella is the perfect babysitter for Ragnar's daughter. But as the chemistry between them grows, Ragnar wants much more than childcare.

He's dreaming of finding love again while she is petrified of repeating the mistakes that made her first marriage a nightmare.