Will Miller doesn't know what to think when the lovely young woman faints in his jewelry and watch repair shop--except he wants to help her any way he can.

Widow Pearl Ward, struggling to survive, needs to sell the watch-locket given to her on her eighteenth birthday.

When he learns she's expecting, he proposes.

Will Pearl's feelings for her late husband stand between them? Can they build a life together with his mother dead set against them?