Derek March is a handsome young man in 1895, newly arrived in Spencer's Mill, Ohio. All he wants is to settle down with a wife who will care for him, give him a family, and allow him to live a normal, quiet life. He becomes involved in a romance with Carrie Johnson, granddaughter of a local prominent couple, Christian and Susannah Wolf. But he has a past, and he's still doing a balancing act. Is he the old Derek or the reformed one? Can he keep...