Having lost her husband and daughter in a boating accident, Dr Amy Merrill lives with her aunt and uncle and works at the local hospital. Still struggling after three years to put the past behind her, she befriends a young patient, Jane, brought to the hospital with pneumonia. Jane, she discovers, has run away from her rich father's house to search for her lost mother. And when Amy meets the father, handsome Grady Gilmour, her life will never be the same again...