Five single, fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s but rarely see one another. One Saturday afternoon, they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window. After trying it on --- without a single boyfriend or date between the five of them --- they decide to pool their money to purchase it. Can one dress forever connect five women who live together only a short time before taking their own journeys to love and whatever comes happily ever after?

Ashlynne Rothschild is sent to Testament, North Carolina, to earn her chops as a reporter and unearths a story that could turn its people against her. Beneath the picturesque setting of the Blue Ridge Mountains, secrets are buried --- one secret in particular. Keeping it hidden would go against Ashlynne’s journalistic integrity, but publishing the story would hurt those she’s learned to love --- even her gruff, unapproachable boss, who harbors mysteries of his own.

The beautiful Claybourne home on Cedar Key has long been a place of rest, healing and release. But Cedar Key might also be the birthplace of a lie that is poisoning the family from within. Join the five Claybourne women as they search the past and confront the truth. Their unique paths will lead them through heartbreak, misunderstandings and pain. But their journeys will also bring reconciliation with each other and the precious renewal of love in their own lives.

Patsy Milstrap wishes she could leave her past behind. At her concerned husband's gentle insistence, they take a vacation to Cedar Key, an idyllic island on Florida's Gulf Coast. When a familiar --- and most unexpected --- face greets her at a seaside restaurant, Patsy knows she can no longer run from the past. But what will opening old wounds mean? And what will the future hold?