Melissa "Missy" Houghton is on a quest for true love, but she's looking in all the wrong places. She abandons her favorite activities in her pursuit of something better. Something that will give her life significance. Something that will bring her hope. When her first boyfriend turns out to be a huge disappointment, she opens her life to more possibilities, only they aren't any better. In fact, Missy finds herself trapped in a situation that skews her view of people, and shreds her ability to trust. The resulting pain doesn't inhibit her search, but it may taint her choices and ultimately cost her more than she's willing to pay.

While attending a private Christian high school in San Francisco, Missy Houghton thought she'd finally found true love. When she caught her boyfriend Chuck cheating on her, she called it quits and moved back to New York to live with her parents.She enrolled in college and her life started looking more normal and less like a train wreck. It didn't take long for her ex to find her again and convince her that he'd changed. To prove his sincerity he hopped on a bus and traveled across the country to resume their relationship. She wanted to believe him but she and her father had their doubts. Would Chuck prove himself capable of true change, or would she regret her decision to let him back into her life?

Missy Houghton hopes to defy the odds while marrying young, but ends up with a failed marriage when Chuck breaks her heart once again. In the midst of her divorce she loses her father to cancer, and now everything in her life feels broken. At her lowest point she meets Frank, a Christian man at her church, and he restores some of the faith she had lost in herself. Though reluctant to begin another relationship, they become close friends and she decides to give love one last chance. Soon drama with Franks' ex overwhelms her and she regrets committing her heart to another man. At the same time, she wants her marriage to be successful and is unwilling to give up easily. But she's not sure she can handle much more disappointment and pain. Will her new marriage last?

Missy is pregnant with her first child. Her finances are a train wreck and her marriage is rocky. Her son soon arrives and things get more complicated. This is the fourth book in a series of novellas and the conclusion to Missy's journey.