Seventeen year old Jan Brent and her mother lived on a small farm on the outskirts of Paw's Creek. Her mother worked in town at the diner as a waitress. Due to her mother's death, Jan had been left to fend for herself. Faced with finding a way to keep the farm, she comes up with a scheme that involves a wealthy ol' friend of the family's... her mother's boss.Her one close friend Maggie Madison tries desperately to talk /shame her out of it. As fate would have it, a truck breaks down next to Jan's farm and out steps Steve York. That's where the story takes off.