Vancouver Island, September 2003. In a family where the need to be loved has always outweighed the need to conform, further developments are taking place. A new baby is welcomed, which Kate Wilder embraces with her usual optimism, but which also creates a need within that her husband David does not share; their son is healthy, they know who they are, where is the need to prove anything more?Kate cannot settle and when the details of her father's birth begin to encroach on their relatively peaceful unit, she rises to a challenge which proves potentially damaging to more than one relationship. To her, there are amends to be made and hearts to be salved, and Kate is not alone in this particular quest. For one person time is running out.