Story of three generations of women from the Kate family living in rural North Carolina.

Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family -- not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate...

When Olivia Chantry inherits half of her uncle's lighting company, she becomes suspicious of her new partner's motives, but she can't deny her attraction to him, so when someone begins blackmailing them, they must risk their new relationship in order to save their company.