While facing the reality that Jasper, her childhood best friend might be in love with her. There is also Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the older man that was only a one night stand, but now is her boss and fully intends to be much more if Bella will allow him. After an affair that ruined her friendship and being in the final year of school, she lives with the consequences of her actions.

Isabella must accept the truth that her husband was lost in battle during World War II. Time has moved on, but each day she is forced to take a step further from the man she promised to wait for. The same man that was there for her during her darkest times, was now asking her to wait for him in his own dark days.