Emma Sloan, an elementary school teacher from Huntington, West Virginia, has just become a mother to a precocious and loveable five-year-old girl named Gracie. After being involved in a car accident, Emma meets firefighter and rescuer, Spenser Adams. There is an instant attraction between the two, but fate has a way of spoiling any chances of a budding romance between them. Seeing with the Heart is a poignant Christian story of the love between two generations of mothers and daughters with an underlying thread of the hope of romance between Emma and Spenser.