Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma. When dashing aviator Arthur Samson promises adventure in the big city, she quickly believes he's the man she's meant to marry.
As Arthur prepares to serve in the Great War, Rebekah's, Aunt Adabelle falls ill. Rebekah seizes the opportunity to escape her mother's interference in her life and travel to Texas alone to care for her aunt, sure that her glamorous and exciting life is about to begin.
But nothing is as she imagined it would be. Faced with the Spanish flu epidemic, Arthur's indecisiveness, and four small children who have no one else to care for them, Rebekah must choose between her desire to escape the type of life she's always known and the unexpected love that just might change the dream of her heart.