When is it time to say goodbye? . For twelve years Ann McCray has not had a kiss from her husband or heard him say I love you. He has been in a coma since a tragic car accident and now Ann is approaching forty childless in their dream house. When she took her vows of in sickness and in health she never imagined this. . Tom Nash has just moved in next door with his teenaged daughter. Back in his glory days Tom knew how to pitch a no-hitter but he's never been good with women. His purple-haired daughter Mer baffles him more than anyone. She needs some maternal guidance and she's not getting it from her self-absorbed mother. . As Ann finds herself drawn to Tom and his daughter there may be hope for a new life with her new neighbor-if she can reconcile the dividing lines between love and loyalty.