Ex-Green Beret Alex Shane has a chance encounter with his sister's childhood friend, Ashlee O'Connell, and is overwhelmed by her looks and spunky personality. Their storybook romance develops and leads to the altar. The happy couple is blessed with a solid marriage, money and two children, Alexis and Arthur. Then a series of tragedies abruptly changes their lives, and the lives of their children forever.If the truest test of human courage is to bear the tragic loss of a loved one, then the Shane family needs to find the courage and resolve necessary to survive as individuals, and as a family....