A painful past can't hold her back, but she won't let herself fall in love… Darcy Malone is not the person she was in high school. She's earned an art degree and is determined to make a respectable name for herself teaching at the elementary school. When she runs headlong into a visiting stranger, she's fascinated by his confident, upbeat smile and love of art and history, but the thought of him learning her past makes it easy to keep him at arms-length. History professor, Wade Spears, is researching a book, and his next stop is the quaint town of Blessings. He has a big decision to make, but it's impossible to choose when it feels like something's missing from his life. He's mesmerized by the beautiful art teacher's kindness and creative energy, but there's something mysterious about the way she deflects all of his efforts to get to know her. Can the artist with a past brush over ancient history, or will she send away the man she loves to achieve his dreams without her?