When a journalist wrongly accuses Lily Blake of having an affair with a newly appointed Cardinal, her life changes overnight. Hounded by the press, fired from her job and robbed of all public freedom, Lily has no choice but to return to her home town in beautiful, rural New Hampshire. Driven by the need to exact justice against the media, she forms an uneasy alliance with John Kipling, who publishes the local newspaper. But is Lily wise to trust a man who could make his own career by selling her story?