When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world --- until 23-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of Adele. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife’s illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption without his knowledge, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to accept that the wife to whom he had given saint status was not the woman he thought he knew.

Eighteen-year-old Penny Carson is swept off her feet by a handsome farmhand named Trent Taylor. Before the ink even dries on their marriage certificate, he hits her for the first time --- and it won't be the last. When Trent is injured in a welding accident, he has no choice but to finally allow Penny to take a job cleaning houses. Here she meets two women from very different worlds who will teach her to live and laugh again.