For five years Nancy Franklin has been madly in love with the charming and wealthy Lawrence Wilton, and now that it is 1903, and there are only twelve weeks to go until her wedding, her happy ending is almost in sight. Little does Nancy know, however, what those weeks are to hold. There is heartbreak ahead for her father when his beautiful young wife Lilian, Nancy's stepmother, runs away with one of Lawrence's friends, and implications for Nancy's own relationship when she discovers that Lawrence was all too aware of the affair. But when her father becomes seriously depressed Nancy is forced to put her own feelings aside. Despite a serious childhood injury that has always prevented her from riding, she is the only person who can be trusted to run the family racing stable - with a little help from horse owner John Brayde...