Amanda Holt, if not the town beauty like her sister Ellen, is the town's most outstanding designer/seamstress, and her business is thriving to the point that, to complete Ellen's wedding gown, she must find a way to work without interruption. Escaping to a friend's lodge in the heart of the Ozarks, she is confronted by more danger than she is prepared to handle -- a lifelong phobia that threatens to paralyze her and, most frightening of all, a man who challenged her to face her past head-on.