Three very different women's lives intersect in ways they could never have arranged. Type A mom Cecilia discovers a letter from her husband, to be opened only in the event of his death. The secret he divulges cracks Cecilia's perfect world, and its aftereffects causes shocks they aren't fully aware of. Tess's husband leaves her for her cousin, who is also her best friend and business partner, forcing her to move back to her mother's and put her son in a local Catholic school. And Rachael, the secretary at St. Angela's, is convinced that a teacher killed her teenaged daughter many years before.