As the Windmere series expands, we meet Rob Roberts and Marti Martin, both thirty-something, living in the same community, but each with no knowledge of the other...yet. Rob's position is suddenly erased when his employer moves off shore. He is unmarried but encumbered, helping to support his mother and a young niece, taking whatever a temp job service can feed him. Marti is successful in operating her own business but has the bitterness of a failed marriage residing within her. She is distrustful of nearly everyone, yet the undisguised honesty of Rob Robert's refreshes her being. They are very much opposites, but like opposing pole magnets find a growing attraction they cannot deny. Will they find a way to make it all work? And what about Emily, the young niece, the skunk, and the big dog?