The story takes place in Northern California over a six-week period in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak.  Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother of two.  Emotionally armored and living alone, she wants only to maintain the status quo:  her long-term significant other, her job, and her friends -- five feisty women who first met in high school. Yet in a matter of days, the three anchors that have kept her moored are ripped away. 

The group of lifelong pals gathers at Lake Tahoe to attend to the funeral arrangements of their beloved friend, and tries to unravel the mystery of her death. Through their shared tragedy, Liz learns how disappointment and grief can bloom into healing and hope.