Ashley Barrett doesn't want to get married until she's finished completing all 25 goals on her "list." But her best laid plans are turned sideways when Matt Gibson--the best surf instructor in Huntington Beach and the most wanted guy in the singles ward--has other ideas.

Navy SEAL Kel Bennett is still alive, although gravely injured from the Saint Squad op that thwarted a terrorist attack in the southwestern U.S. While his wife Marilyn is relieved to have him stationary in a hospital bed, the backlash from the foiled terrorist mission brings Halim Karel to the States. When Marilyn becomes a central ploy in Halim's revenge plan, she struggles to find needed trust and confidence in the military man she loves.

Mormon church members get together and remodel a woman's home so that she and her family won't be evicted.