Chase Chandler is head of the town newspaper, a role he took over when his father died. In doing so he sacrificed any hopes and dreams he had for himself. Still, he gladly watched as his younger brothers found wives and started families. But when their mother falls seriously ill, Chase realizes how lonely he's become and that it's time to find a wife-and life-of his own.

When he promises to look out for a family friend's daughter who is visiting, he is shocked to discover that this is the young woman with whom he shared one secret night of passion. Now this loner is determined to try again with a woman he fell in love with on first sight-and find out if a second chance might lead to forever...