Leave it to Deirdre to show up on Ellen's doorstep with a broken-down car, a harp, and a very large dog named Stanley. Deirdre is still looking for her Prince Charming, a man with the soul of a poet and a Bill Gates bank account. Until she finds him, Deirdre needs a place to crash, and that's where Ellen comes in. Ellen has learned the hard way that nothing is quite the way it seems--not family and certainly not love. But for one magical summer, the lessons of the past will be forgotten as Ellen finds out that sometimes hope and love have a way of sneaking back into the heart when least expected.