Benjamin Emerson is determined to honor the dying Mrs. Brody's last wish, that her granddaughter shall not spend Valentine's Day alone. But as the special day is closing in, he still doesn't know how to reach the stiff, correct librarian. Broken by her psychopathic former fiancée, Leonore Brody moves back into her empty childhood home in Barnesville, numbly taking one day at a time. When Ben asks her to help his daughter, she can't refuse, knowing how much he meant to her grandmother. Caught at the Emerson Farm by a snow storm, Leonore finds herself drawn to the charismatic Ben. But the scars from her past are deep—can she ever trust a man again?