Paul, Amy, and Carly are a family. They are all feeling torn apart after Amy's cancer diagnosis. The story follows all 3 on different paths that will eventually lead back to one another. After finding divorce papers, Amy decides to go to visit all the National Parks on the way back to where she grew up. She finds the beauty in nature and the will to keep on living her best life. Paul worked in the rubble to rescue people trapped after the Oklahoma City bombing. He still thinks about that day and the months following and is still haunted by it. He takes his daughter to her great-aunt's ranch in New Mexico and sets to restoring a house they had purchased 2 years before Amy's diagnosis. Carly is mad that her father dropped her off and left her at her great aunt's house. She lives get Aunt but doesn't want to spend the summer there helping do tours. Until she sees again her favorite horse T. Rex again. I think I liked Paul's journey the best of of the three