Graceland "Grace" Braun is a self-reliant, dedicated high school counselor. She spent her youth moving around as her mother, Maybelle, a Dolly Parton-wannabe and Elvis groupie, worked her way through several marriages while desperately searching for her "one true love." Their relationship was more like sisters than mother/daughter, with Grace becoming the practical one who worried about paying for food and rent.

When her mother abandoned Grace at the age of fourteen in Pine Falls, Wisconsin, with a grandmother she barely knew, Grace felt lonely and depressed. The acceptance and love she received, particularly from the friendly Delaney family and their eldest son Jack, was her saving grace. She fell in love with Jack only to be abandoned once again when he leaves her and Pine Falls after graduation. She's taken in a stray cat she refuses to name, in case the cat also abandons her. Grace is now determined to marry someone reliable and raise a "normal" family in Pine Falls. When both Jack and Maybelle unexpectedly return to Pine Falls, Grace's peaceful existence is thrown into chaos.

Has she found her own "one true love" or will he leave again?