Joyce Mitchell's beloved husband Mitch died five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counselling to young women. Joyce's life is rich and full, but something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or the social life to suit it. And she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer due to funding cuts. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister - a reverend like no other - and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson.