Tara Martin comes from a small town in West Virginia, but she is exceptionally brilliant. Her teachers convince her parents to allow her to go to school at John Hopkins undergraduate for her to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. On the eve of her graduation from Harvard Medical School, her mother encourages her to not be so single minded in her career and get out there and enjoy herself.
Standing outside her mentor's home, Tara meets Nathan Coleman and her life was never the same.