An Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents, Lenore Lapp thought love had passed her by. When she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter, she falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse's proposal of marriage. But Jesse is looking for a marriage of convenience, and breaks off their engagement when he realizes Lenore wants love and children. While working in her grandmother's garden, Lenore digs up an old jar with a note inside. Will solving long-buried family secrets help heal her broken heart?