After years of living quite the roller coaster life and then missing her mother for nearly a year, fifteen-year-old Lucy Mackensie and her dad are again seeing the silver linings through the clouds. Mac loves teaching high school English and is also acting again with community theater groups. He even got a gig with a professional Shakespeare troupe! And Lucy is doing great in school, has an awesome best friend and possibly even has a secret admirer! Then then, for some reason, one by one, the good things in their life are starting to disappear . . .