Between the bustle of Denver and the pressure of a neurosurgery career, Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall. After an emergency high-risk procedure ends in a teenager's death, she finds herself named in a lawsuit and living with a level of anxiety she has never known. She needs to slow down before she burns out entirely, and the place she thinks of is Sullivan's Crossing.
Named for her great-grandfather, the land and general store at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails have passed down through the family and now belong to her eccentric father, Sully. He welcomes her back without question, and Maggie settles gratefully into his simpler life — until her world is rocked again and she must shoulder far more responsibility than she planned.
A quiet, serious hiker named Cal Jones is willing to help. Maggie is suspicious of how eager he is, until she learns the real reason for his deliberate isolation. Both of them are carrying loss and loneliness, and the time they spend together offers the first hope either has felt in a long while.