Sometimes our past interferes with our present. Kasi Davis has loved Travis Harris since she was too young for him to notice. Then she made a mistake and thought she had to marry Jake Ziliki. How she blames herself for Jake's death and feels unworthy of Travis. Kasi works at the school cafeteria and feels inferior to the teachers, including her old friends she has managed to avoid for a year now. But as school begins, she discovers one old friend won't be so easy to ignore. Travis Harris has taken a job as Pleasant Spring, Missouri's high school coach and he's thrilled to find Kasi and begin a campaign to win her love. He's loved Kasi from the start, but how can he convince her? And how can he stop seeing Jake every time he looks at Kasi's son?