After an ill-timed heartbreak, Craig Swagger takes, what he thought would be a directionless drive. Instead, he finds himself broken down in the small town of Lakeside, Oregon with no vehicle, no place to go, and an evaporating bank account.

 

By necessity, or fate, Craig runs into the owner of The Chariot, a local bed and breakfast. Jasmine O’Hara, a modest, single-mother, seems to resent unsolicited, unregistered, visitors, and only begrudgingly agrees to rent Craig a room for an extended time period in exchange for basic assistance with repairs and maintenance.

 

In this down-to-earth tourist town, Craig encounters a quirky and entertaining collection of people that he discovers embodies the meaning of community like he’s never experienced before. It’s the rising affection for Jasmine, and an unlikely friendship, that convinces Craig that he might have found where he belongs. But when the winds of his past blow in and an unpredicted storm threatens to take everything that he’s come to love, Craig has to find peace with the one thing he’s never believed in before—forever.