Faith Fisher is faced with the knowledge that the family restaurant and B&B are in dire financial circumstances. Faith's mother has been searching to no avail for a way to end their money worries. What will Faith do when she discovers that her mother is plotting to marry her to the wealthy widower, Jakob Lapp? Their circumstances go from bad to worse when Faith's mother brings the unsavory money lender, Richard Black, into their lives. Will the shy and quiet Ben Schrumb, the only man Faith has ever loved, grow tired of waiting for Faith while she struggles to free herself of her mother's unreasonable demands?