Twenty-two-year-old Sarah Catherine McNairy and her mother Elizabeth leave Ireland in 1847 on a ship bound for America. Elizabeth dies on the ship; Sarah is alone and devastated.
While working in a boarding house in Boston she answers a newspaper ad from a Willis Harwell, who owns a farm in Kansas and wants a wife.
After months of corresponding, Willis sends Sarah money to come to Kansas. She arrives only to learn, Willis died and left two young children.
She is overwhelmed and panic stricken. Sarah does not have enough money to leave and where would she go?
Sarah meets Willis's family. His mother and father invite her to stay on the farm and help with the children, until she can decide what to do.
Logan, Willis's brother begins to fall in love with Sarah, Jesse a farmhand is showing interest in Sarah. Logan becomes jealous.
Sarah's Irish temper flares when Logan orders Jesse to stay away from her.
In the midst of the turmoil, love shines through, and Sarah falls in love with the man of her dreams.