After her parents are killed in a boating accident, Emily Cray decides to move to Bourbon County, Kentucky, to restore her mother's ancestral home, Clarewood. The plantation has fallen into ruinsince the close of the Civil War thirty years before. Emily's heart has been carefully guarded sincea betrayal as a very young woman. Then, Daniel Moore moves to a neighboring farm with his adorablered-headed children. He sets up a law practice in the town of Paris. Emily immediately falls in love with the Moore children who lost their mother to childbirth. As she works to restore Clarewood, her heartalso becomes restored, and she finds the true love she has been longing for."