Kamryn and Mark McHale live a charmed life: three healthy children, good jobs, a beautiful two story home, and the romance is still alive in their marriage. Mark still sends Kamryn flowers to mark the biggest and the smallest of anniversaries in their lives.

But Mark travels for his job, and sometimes it seems that he's gone away far more than he is home. Now and then, Kamryn finds herself overwhelmed with the girls—sixteen-year-old twins can be a handful—and Ian and her job. Kamryn worries about Ashton who studies all the time and doesn't seem to know what fun is, about Braelyn who doesn't seem to know what the word serious is, and Ian, who is small for his age and has been the target of school bullies.

Mark thinks that Kamryn worries too much.

Their perfect marriage is tested when Kamryn begins to suspect that someone in the house is drinking too much, and Mark assumes she blames him. Each member of the McHale family reels from the tension and the sudden, constant fighting between Kamryn and Mark, until finally, tragedy strikes and leaves them all broken.

Mark loves them all, but can he find the strength to put them back together again?