Three nineteenth-century Massachusetts women find time and circumstances ripe for romance. After losing her husband and daughter in a fire, Michaela Macintosh never planned to love again. She certainly didn't imagine that her heart would be torn between two very different men. After avoiding the biggest mistake of her life, Rebecca Johnson takes a position in Boston as a seamstress where she meets Luke. Adam Johnson's brother was killed by a Polish man, and he judges an entire people based on one man's actions. When he falls for a Polish woman named Lidia, will his head or heart win out?