Until recently, Kate Livingston was a columnist for a fashion magazine. Now she is a single, unemployed woman with only her nine-year-old son, Aaron, and her old house at Crescent Lake. With gloomy thoughts, Kate goes to her family home for the summer. A pleasant surprise awaits her there: a new neighbor, Jay Harris. Military medic Harris, by chance, saved the president from death and is now hiding from the attention of the paparazzi by a quiet lake. Jay becomes a real friend to Aaron and Kate until he finds out about her journalistic past.