When Maddie takes a part-time art teaching job in a sleepy coastal town, she's determined to leave the past behind. But on her first day, a precocious little girl named Ivy captures her attention—and stirs something far deeper. The child's eyes, her laugh, the way she holds a pencil... it all feels hauntingly familiar.

Noah is a widowed architect and the adoptive father of Ivy, a quiet and creative seven-year-old who changed his life in ways he never imagined. He's built a world for her filled with pancakes, bedtime stories, and love. What he doesn't expect is the new art teacher—someone who stirs up memories he thought were buried with his grief.

As Maddie begins to piece together the truth—that Ivy is the daughter she gave up years ago—Noah uncovers a letter never meant for his eyes. Their lives, once parallel, begin to collide. Both are unprepared for the past to come knocking... and for the fragile bond forming between them to be tested by the very secrets that connect them.

Can two broken hearts find healing in the child between them? Or will the truth be the one thing they can't forgive?