Three couples, all connected by love and loss, and something else. There are forces at work, often unknown to us, that bring the right one into our lives. And sometimes we need a little help to see what has been there all along. January Madison is a reporter sent to Gull Island, off the coast of Maine, to bring the story of a couple who found love in their eighties to the readers of her popular feature, aThe Right Onea in a national magazine. She has given up on the idea of true love, having been abandoned by her fiancA© just a few months before their wedding. She is about to meet four people who will change her life, one of whom may not be who she seems. And, she is about to be run into a force that is much bigger than anything she has ever written abouta]one that she canat resist.