Dr. Cindy Barton is a neurosurgeon in a large Florida hospital associated with a university in her hometown. She is single and perfectly content with her life. It is uncomplicated; she is in control of every part of her life; and other than having to talk to the families of her patients is thrilled with her job.
She has a beautiful house on a river that opens into the Gulf of Mexico. From her lanai behind her house, she can see the merging of these two bodies of water quite clearly. She has a boyfriend who works at the same hospital, and they do many of the same things as others in an adult relationship.
Who knew her life would change as she sat on her lanai watching a repairman as old as her grandfather fix a light in her swimming pool? After this event, her life becomes chaotic, stressful, and completely out of control. Some of her surgeries become the talk of the hospital and are even broadcast on national TV. She ends up in court not once, but twice. She has to make commitments that she never had before and has no clue how she will live up to them.
Throughout this chaos, her life changes from the controlled existence she has become so comfortable with to one of a life of risks, uncertainty, and love. She becomes more than a doctor. She becomes a woman in touch with the world and the people around her.