Ella Barron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. But when a room in her boarding house opens up and the respected town doctor Dr. Kincaid brings Ella a new boarder-the handsome and gallant Mr. David Rainwater-Ella is immediately resistant to opening up her home to this mysterious stranger. Soon this strong-minded independent woman will realize that the living that she has eked out for herself in the small bubble of her town is about to change whether she likes it or not...