Ashton is having trouble again and Mary Jane Wilford is coming back to town just in time to be in the middle of it. The thing is she has problems of her own. She left behind a secret that she doesn't want anyone to know, especially her parents. While she struggles with her faith or lack of it and starting a new job as an elementary school teacher her past comes back to haunt her in the person of Adam Collins. He claims if she will just help him he will disappear from her life and no one needs to know anything about their time together in Denton, Texas. She lost her trust in him some time ago and really doesn't want it back even if he is a DEA agent like he claims to be. It doesn't help any when her parents introduce her to the one man she can never have the new preacher of the First Baptist Church, Guy Hayworth. Guy Hayworth is a single Baptist preacher at his first large church. He is still learning the ropes and trying to figure out how to keep from getting into trouble with the single women in his congregation when he meets Mary Jane. Her lack of faith in God and her lack of faith in him make him wonder if God is really sure this is the woman for him. He knows she is hurting but she doesn't want to confide in him. While he is still trying to figure out a way to convince her that he is at least her friend she gets involved in an attempt to kill the newsman Gideon Marcus. Can these two figure out a way to come together and can Mary Jane realize that God can forgive her no matter what she has done? Can Mary Jane realize that no matter what that God is in control of her life and she must turn to him to find the answers that she is looking for?