Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lottie is settled in St Ives with her adoptive family. But after a trip to America to meet her birth mother ends badly Lottie fears her new life might be falling apart. Arriving back in Cornwall Lottie struggles to adjust to life with her temperamental mother and her return shakes up their quiet community. Lottie too faces a more difficult problem - she's hiding the secret of her first love. And soon she is forced to make a choice between her duty to her family and to her heart. As new challenges arrive for Lottie and the community in St Ives will she and her family be able to overcome their troubles and find their way back to each other?