First comes love, then comes forgiveness... But a widowed father struggling during the Depression doesn't have much faith in either—until he meets Emma Spencer in the South Dakota boardinghouse they share. She's a dedicated nurse who could love his boy and heal his own heart. But how can Boothe trust a profession he blames for his greatest loss? Emma understands Boothe Powers's pain. She has her own secret anguish and believes her dreams of a husband and child are beyond reach. Still, she can pretend when he asks her to play his temporary fiancee to protect his son. And if God would grant her one miracle, He knows exactly what her heart is yearning for....