Heartland Heartmates

Dara Collier teaches music at an elementary school in Sedalia, Missouri, and is in the process of adopting three-year-old Chad, the son of her best friend who died in Iraq. When Jared Fletcher, the man who broke her heart four years earlier returns unexpectedly, they must each face the past. Can Dara risk her heart a second time to the man who walked away from her without a word?

Heather Fleming performs as a ventriloquist and works as secretary at her family's theater in Branson, Missouri. When police officer Gage Cassidy visits the theater investigating a credit card skimming operation, Heather is attracted in spite of her goal of devoting her life to the business and atonement for failing to change the tires on her car before loaning it to her friend who had an accident in it that left her blind.

Nikki Raynor has returned to Springfield, Missouri, to regain control of her life after having run away two years earlier. A former high school music teacher, she now works for an advertising agency, and Cody Fleming, the neighbor boy she adored as a girl, is her newest client. Cody, a strong Christian, is part of his family's show at their theater in Branson and has always been the kind of person who takes in strays. When he wants to help Nikki, she resists.

High school softball coach Dale Denning is persuaded to masquerade as catcher on her twin brother's company-sponsored all-male summer baseball team. During a game, she trips on a bat - and meets Justin Whitaker, owner of the company. Focused on her job, church, and missions, the last thing Dale needs is the complication of a man in her life. One bad experience is enough.