tess johnson has it all her handsome photographer husband beau a thriving business and a newly discovered pregnancy when beau accepts an overseas photography assignment tess decides to wait to reveal her secretonly shes never given the chance beaus helicopter crashes in the deserttess struggles with the news of beaus death and tries to put her life back together alone and dealing with a pregnancy that only reminds her of what she has lost tess is adrift in a world of failed plans and fallen expectations when a new client appears offering more than just a new project tess must confront the circumstances of her life head onmeanwhile two iraqi women who are fleeing honor killings find beau barely alive in the middle of the desert his body ravaged by the crash suha a doctor and samira a widow and mother of three young children nurse him back to health in a makeshift tent beau bonds with the women and children and together with the help of an underground organization they continue their dangerous escapewhat happens next is a test of loyalties strength and love