In a story of extraordinary sacrifice and selflessness, the young socialite Sara leaves her home in New York to escort an orphan, Mairi, to her family in Tennessee. Although she thought her heart was in New York, Sara grows to adore the MacIntyre family and when Mairi’s older cousin, a man of the mountains, Wyn, begins to pay her all the attention of a princess, she realizes where her heart really is. As Sara begins to feel femininity dawn on her life, she wonders why Wyn doesn’t seem to return the passion that is fueling her. Sara continues to spend her days working as the school mistress in the small community in Tennessee but what would it take to prove to Wyn how much she loved him?