Former marine Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family's apple orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. The "marrying" kind. Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can't he keep his eyes off the striking single mother? Nora may not have finished college, but she graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks. She's been through tough times and...

When an accident turns her impromptu visit to Virgin River into an extended stay, Becca Trim gets an unexpected second chance at love with her college sweetheart, Denny Cutler, who had broken her heart three years earlier before heading off to war.