"Evangeline Ipswich longs for a love of her own. She has cared for her younger sisters since their mother died giving birth when Evangeline was twelve. Now both her sisters are happily married to handsome, loving husbands, and her father has remarried as well. At twenty-two, the weight of years of responsibility has taken a toll on Evangeline, and she worries that she will never find happiness of her own. When Evangeline's best friend Jennie is put on bedrest for the remainder of her first pregnancy, Evangeline jumps at the opportunity to travel to Red Peak to stay with Jennie, whom she hasn't seen for nearly six years, and revisit their carefree childhood days together. But Evangeline is startled to be met at the train station by Jennie's older brother, Hutchner. And he is even more good-looking than she recalled from her teenage years, when she was madly in love with him and dreamt of winning his heart"--