As a nurse, Tari is instinctively drawn toward people whom everyone else overlooks. She brings medical care to the poor and underserved, comforts frightened families and eventually assumes leadership of Tezhouse Services for the Underserved. But her gift extends beyond medicine. Tari understands that sometimes a person needs a hand held as desperately as a wound needs treatment.

And then there is the other Tari.

She sings. She dances. She jokes. She can be outrageous, feisty and gloriously unpredictable. She loves being the life of the party – and sometimes uses clever humor and laughter to hide memories she would rather forget.

Then she meets Adam.

Their love changes both of them. Tari gives Adam something he has never possessed: a family. Together they raise Tojo and Kaleeva and create the home Adam could scarcely have imagined during his lonely years in Novana.

But loving Adam is not easy.

As his career soars, Tari increasingly finds herself competing with something she cannot embrace, argue with or hold: his ambition.

She wants Adam to succeed. She simply refuses to accept that his success should cost them their marriage.

Their struggle forces Tari to confront uncomfortable truths of her own. The woman determined to heal everyone else must eventually examine wounds she has carried since childhood. She discovers that Adam is not the only person in their marriage who must change.

Through triumph, disappointment, anger, forgiveness and renewed love, Tari gradually discovers that her own journey has never been merely about standing beside Adam.

She has a calling of her own.

And eventually the two people who began life searching separately for something that mattered must discover whether love itself can become something greater:

A shared life with Adam – each devoted to other