Sometimes you have to leave your life to find youself again. After more than a dozen moves in 25 years of marriage, Joanna has become a "corporate wife"-an unofficial breed of parent, whose life is devoted to raising her children in a new town as she follows her husband, Paul, up the corporate ladder. But now that the kids are grown, Paul's latest surprise transfer is too much. When the tiny voice inside her head becomes a shout-Leave -Joanna listens: She packs her bags and heads for a place she'd fallen in love with years before, Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Once there, she manages to find a new home with Grace, an elderly widow who has moved to the island to live out her last days. Entwined is Paul Harrison's story, as he loses his wife, his job, everything that has defined him. Gradually he becomes the neighborhood handyman, befriends the lonely wife of another transferee, and realizes all that he has sacrificed in his quest for success.