Now that Colin Grassick, a master glassblower from Scotland, has arrived to help at the Jordan glassworks, Meg Jordan’s dreams of teaching the poor, local children are coming true. Finally, someone will have time to make windows for the rural New Jersey schoolhouse, to keep out the cold—and vandals.

To Joseph Pyle, the wealthy, arrogant man to whom Meg will soon be betrothed, the destruction of  Meg’s new windows is inconsequential—as his wife, she will be forbidden from teaching.

Why would Meg’s father insist she marry a man like Joseph and stay away from the endearing Colin?