A grieving widow returns to live with her parents after her husband is killed during a poker game. She adopts a teenage orphan on a whim, only to have her courage and inner strength tested by the discovery that the youngster is harbouring a dark secret. Period drama, starring Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne and Samantha Smith.

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right into, but Missie has lost all faith in herself, until a chance encounter at her father's church where she adopts homeless orphan Belinda Marshall.