For nearly twenty years Michelle Linn-Gust has journeyed through grief following the suicide of her younger sister Denise. The road has taken her through authoring seven books, speaking around the world about how to cope with suicide, and to the presidency of the American Association of Suicidology. In 2011, she took up surfing, something she always dreamed of but never thought she would, and watched her life change around her. This is her inspiring journey as she reflects back on her life with Denise, the importance of water in her relationship with her sister, and where she goes from here as she moves beyond speaking and writing about grief and loss.

College English professor Rachel Monroe realizes that life is about connections. Before her husband Tom's death from cancer, he made her promise that she would pursue all the goals and dreams she had left behind in her life. Knowing that even in death Tom is leading her, Rachel completes her first fiction manuscript, one of the goals she had never accomplished, and finds a second career as a writer. When a publicity tour takes her from her Kansas home to Australia, she has the opportunity to find her Australian high school pen pal, Jenny Phillips, who had quit writing near the end of their senior year. Rachel visits Coolum Beach, the oceanside town where Jenny lived most of the years the two girls corresponded. Rachel can sense a change, that Tom isn't guiding her as he once was. She struggles with a new manuscript and reconciling her hope that somehow she'll find Jenny. In the process, she meets Jamie Stephens and as Jamie's life becomes intertwined with Rachel's, she begins to understand that her connection to Jenny was not just about writing letters, but ultimately a guide for Rachel's life.

Forced by her friends to be the first at a party to get a psychic reading, high school English teacher Sarah McCall learns more than she understands about the suicide death of her younger sister, Jenna. She dismisses the idea of a karmic agreement, that she and her sister formed a pact as souls before entering their respective lives. But, after the ten-year anniversary of Jenna's suicide passes, the reading takes Sarah on a path of reflecting on her sister's life, her own life, and their lives together tightly intertwined with baseball, oatmeal cookies, and the dream of opening a bakery. Sarah realizes she must confront her fears that Jenna's death left behind after baseball coach Mark Lennon approaches Sarah about providing her oatmeal cookies as part of a fundraiser for his team. However, the two aspects she does not expect are how her life begins to change and her accepting that maybe she and Jenna did agree to something more than is visible in her life.