Jonah Miller thought he left heartbreak behind when he moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois, settling into a new Amish community as a buggy maker. But his heart is about to be broken again as Elaine Schrock ignores her love and rejects his courtship in order to care for her only living relative, a grandmother with dementia. Jonah is sure he won't find love a third time until he starts dating Sarah, a widow with a son. But now that Jonah appears to have found the happiness he has long sought, Elaine starts to feel heartbroken.