Allie is getting ready for her shift as usual. All she has ever wanted since she was a young child is to be a nurse. So she is twentysix and a nurse in the hospice unit at the hospital. Most nurses who work this unit have a special way with the patients and the families of the dying. All are at the final stage of life. Allie's mother died of cancer three years ago. Her father died when she was just two years of age. She has no family living. Her coworkers have become her family. Her best friend, Bree, is like a sister to her. A strange man appears in her life and changes all her negative feelings on love and marriage. Alex Smith will make her happy and break her heart.