A U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan becomes a father figure to a lonely boy who writes to him from home in California. When the soldier returns from a tour of duty, romance begins to blossom between him and the boy's divorced mother.
A successful doctor (Lisa Hartman Black) reconnects with a past love (Dale Midkiff) and her estranged mother (Rue McClanahan) after returning to her rural hometown.
The death of an infant and a severe drought test the faith of Christian pioneers Missy and Willie LaHaye as they try to eke out a living as cattle ranchers. Willie reluctantly takes a job as town sheriff, then finds he must evict friends and neighbors who have fallen behind in their payments to land baron Samuel Doros.
An urban lawyer (Jeremy London) faces his toughest jury yet when he goes home for Christmas with his country-girl fiancée (Dorie Barton) to meet her parents.