Rachael Hart is looking forward to Aspen Falls' Founders Day celebration – the twenty-fifth anniversary of the town's founding by her father. Rachal, the oldest, still lives at the homestead with her sister Miriam, and her brothers, Benjamin and Jason. She loves it in Aspen Falls, but only one thing is missing from her life – a husband and family.

Rachael Hart, eldest daughter of the Hart family, founders of Aspen Falls, had begun to lose hope of ever marrying and having a family when William Bly, a former suitor returns to town, proclaiming his love and asking for her hand. Her hopes burgeon, only to be cruelly dashed when she learns she's going blind.