When Max Tate meets Lynn at the Fourth of July celebration in their hometown of Ft. Freedom, Washington, he's attracted to her. Lynn helps Max locate his birth mother, but when they take a ferry to Cascade Island in search of her, they're too late. Two weeks before, she died of cancer. Now Max is mad at God and turns his back on the best friend he ever had—Lynn Marshall. Lynn got lost in the crowd of her large family, her parent's attention never stretching far enough to her lonely position as a middle child. When Max declares his love for her, she gives him her heart, but he hurls it back at her. Can Max and Lynn move past the disappointments and pain in their lives to celebrate another Fourth of July together?