Desperate to rebuild her life, English teacher Maura Shaw comes to Newport Academy, an elite private high school, with her two children, but the ghosts of the past, including her estrangement from her sister, continue to haunt her.

Kate Stanislaski Kimball, the daughter of Natasha Stanislaski, turns her back on fame and glamour to build a new life as a dance teacher and finds herself falling for Brady O'Connell, the rugged contractor she hires to renovate her new dance school. .