Two friends with a shared tragedy find life companions in very different ways. One gets a familiar, and the other gets everything she didn't know she wanted.

Missy is delighted to be reunited with her sister and mortified to be tied to Tannic once again when she is so close to being free of the birdbrained jock. They settle in for companionship and slow courtship, but Missy's mindset is difficult for most folks to understand, so she calls in reinforcements.

Rehalla is a friend from school, and when together, she and Missy understand each other.

After meeting Tannic, Rehalla acts as a translator for some of Missy's behaviours, and soon, they have an arrangement that helps Missy act in a socially acceptable manner at her sister's engagement party. With that settled, Rehalla is ready to flirt with some of the available guests when a shocking rejection sends her into a spin that leads her to the origin of her executioner abilities and a family she could never have imagined.

It's no wonder that she has been feeling blue. She was always supposed to be.