Seven years of widowhood have made Kate Flynn a strong, independent woman who even operates her own dressmaking shop. But when her eight-year-old son, Adam, has a run-in with a burly shipbuilder, she realizes the necessity of some godly male influence in his life. Adam starts working in a warehouse owned by John Joseph O'Keefe, better known as J.J., who looks out for Adam and feels a growing attraction to his young protege's mother. Kate's emotions are as tumultuous as the ocean as she wonders what the future will hold.