Andrea Hogan had always dreamed of being a High School English teacher, but with the teacher glut of the 1970s she chose a different path into government administration. The one thing the government job allowed her was to retire early to return to college to complete her credentials to teach. Suddenly she finds herself with a job in a small school district in southeastern Iowa and an apartment in a renovated school house. The last thing she expected was to find that her new department head and upstairs neighbor would be the man she had shared an apartment with during their senior year in college.