Chase Chandler is head of the town newspaper, a role he took over when his father died. In doing so, he sacrificed any hopes and dreams he had. He gladly watched as his younger two brothers did as their mother requested and found wives - even after discovering she was faking illness. But when their mother falls ill for real, Chase reevaluates and decides to find a wife of his own. He promises the wife of a senator - an old friend of his mother's - to watch over her husband's daughter, Sloane Carlisle, who's in town trying to track down the truth to her family's past. But he is shocked to realize that Sloane is the woman he had one secret night of passion with and thought he'd never see again. Now he's determined to give himself a second chance with a woman he fell in love with on first sight...