Kansas, 1884 - When she was just a girl, young Rebecca Switzer lost her heart to Jesse Montgomery, a rugged but dissolute cowboy on a dusty cattle trail near the Amish settlement of Apple Grove. Now she is all grown up, and when she hears that her one true love has been spotted nearby, Rebecca's desire is plain and simple: She must see him.
Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can leave law enforcement and follow his dream of starting a church and making a home for orphans. When a lovely women, new to town and looking travel weary and lost, gets caught up in the middle of a temperance riot, she is arrested along with the leaders. He can hardly beleive Rebecca is what she claims - a Plain woman. Nor can he believe how quickly he loses his heart to her. Can Colin persuade her to forget Jesse and give him a chance?