After a four day courtship, Roxy impetuously decides to marry Trevor and moves with her two kids to his Army post. There, she meets Claudia Joy Holden, the wife of Colonel Holden, who believes that her husband's promotion was stolen from him through base politics, Pamela Moran, heavily pregnant with twins who are secretly surrogate babies to help her family get out of debt, Roland Burton, a psychiatrist whose wife, Lieutenant Joan, has just returned from Afghanistan, and Denise Sherwood, a woman caught in the rift between her strict husband, Frank, and her rebellious son, Jeremy.