Emma Parker is a widow and a grandmother. She finds a stranger sleeping in her barn one morning, the man having taken shelter from a severe storm the night before.Ward Hamilton left and bad marriage and sold several successful businesses in the east,in order to make a positive change in his life."Life was good when one had the time to be fully conscious of each moment of every day.Life was rich when one had the time to fully appreciate every nuance of a gracious, caring, and beautiful woman.Life was sweet when rushes of emotion and pulses of passion were created from a shared, simple glance."