From the hamlet that is Stillwater, Minnesota, to the mountains of western Montana, The Boathouse is a love story that spans three decades. Abby and Mitch were once teenagers with their lives ahead of them when a paralyzing accident left Mitch unable to walk, tearing their relationship apart. Now, years later and in a marriage marred by the infidelity of her husband, Abby has found herself unable to love, nor is she allowing herself to be loved in return. But when a newspaper lands on her front porch, the headline is of the first recipient of stem cell therapy to repair a spinal cord injury. The name of the man who will walk again is Mitch Brandt, a man she is about to learn she has never stopped loving.