Sister Alexia Maria (Lexi) returns home to nurse her dying father and consider her future before taking her final vows. Many hope she won't return to the convent including Lucas Brooks a widower with two children who soon tells her how he feels. Lexi has a past she has been hiding for years and a nasty home invasion forces her to tell Lucas everything and come to terms with it so she can move on. However, Lucas's own past soon catches up with him and Lexi is compelled to make the most difficult decision of her life. To give herself space she agrees to mind four children on a remote rural property on the northern Wairarapa coast where she meets Lachlan Cooper, a suave career soldier and brother of the station owner. Then suddenly she is ashamed to admit she no longer has any choice in her final decision. A story of love and redemption