After finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children, while a sensational Hollywood trial reunites Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart, but just when love has the chance to win, doubts and presumed scandals push them further apart.

Found when she was an infant in a New York City alley by a gang of urchin boys, including a runaway slave, Mary Rose Clayborne is taken by them to a Montana ranch, where she becomes part of their mismatched and utterly loyal family.