The spinster milliner of Proffitt, Kansas, Agatha Downing is as prim as a Quaker bonnet, yet her fiery green eyes and fanciful hats tell more than her passionless demeanor. She yearns to share her life with someone, but her "gimp" leg and her thirty five years dissolve her hope of ever finding a husband. Along comes Scott Gandy, a brash widower who hides his grief beneath laughing black eyes. First foe, then friend, he fills Agatha with a happiness she has never known. Into their lives comes a young boy who helps provide them with a sense of family. But to be a true family requires love and commitment-which both Agatha and Scott were afraid to risk.