Cleo Anderson's people skills are hesitant and her life broken, yet she is determined to leave her past behind.

Alone is good and she is finding her way. Drawn to a fish camp in the wilds of the Okefenokee Swamp, she parks her Play-Mor where gators yawn, bears slumber, and snakes slither. The camp pace is slow, the owner kind, and the people friendly. Cleo encounters Fletcher Freemont Maitland and his goddaughter, eleven-year-old Katie. Cleo didn't know her life was about to unravel yet again, her heart would shatter, and that Fletcher Maitland would help her mend. But Cleo is about to find these things out the hard way.

Both Fletcher and Katie will change her life, but if Cleo doesn't learn to accept that life is bountiful and fate imperfect, she will lose both forever.