Cal is eager to start his own treehouse construction business but is first obligated to carry out his flighty aunt’s last wish: to build a custom treehouse for a victim of domestic abuse so she can set up her own business. On his property! He doesn’t want to be mean or disrespect his late Aunt Ruth, but he doesn’t want her there.

Winsome would love to refuse her friend Ruth’s last wish to see her start her own candle-making shop, but with nowhere else to go and no one to turn to, she has no choice but to stay with Ruth’s gruff, unwelcoming nephew, Caleb.

Each discovers more than they bargained for when facing a past they’d both like to forget becomes the foundation that binds them together.