Stubbornly clinging for thirty years to his love for his lost bride and the dreams they both had for their beautiful farming valley, Jerome Pitcher passes his land—and his love and dreams—to young, compassionate Sara Owen, after she and her husband by chance stop to help him rescue a foaling horse.  But Pitcher's relatives have their own plan to develop the priceless valley, a plan that would destroy its pristine nature, and ruin the love and dreams of Pitcher and his wife.  Recently widowed herself, Sara at first refuses to take the land, not knowing how much it meant—or how much it was worth.   Drawn into the struggle by an enigmatic young lawyer, she and he fight Pitcher's ever more desperate relatives to preserve the valley, learning as they work and grow closer together about the true meaning of love and dreams that transcend generations, and finding that they have inherited more than just the land itself.