Evelyn Sanders is a smart, confident woman, who is tired of the games boys play. She wants to marry, but she needs someone who will be honest with her and treat her like a lady. When one of her students misbehaves in class, and she meets with his father, she is unprepared for the feelings that spring to life for him, despite his seemingly uncaring attitude about his son's misdeeds.
Frank Keifer moved to Nowhere, Texas, to start a ranch and escape the unhappy memories of his ancestral home in Georgia. When his son acts up in school, he hatches a plan to make the pretty teacher's assistant in town his son's private tutor. Even he isn't sure if he does it to get his son a quality education or to get to know the pretty lady. Will he be able to trust his heart enough to fall in love again? Or will he spend the rest of his life alone and sad?