It's the late 1940s. Dorothy Hargrove never expected to return to her small hometown, pregnant and unmarried. To avoid scandal and suppress gossip, her minister father arranges her marriage to widowed farmer John Miller. What starts as a marriage of convenience slowly deepens into something more as they navigate their shared grief and the judgment of a small town. But with the past lingering between them, Dorothy and John must decide if love can grow from the ashes of heartache.