Belinda Davis is the main character of this story. She is the youngest daughter of Clark and Marty Davis. She is the sister of Luke Davis, the town's doctor. Belinda works for her brother as a nurse. In the beginning of the novel, Belinda lives with her brother, his wife Abbie and their two sons. She goes home to visit her parents on the family farm on weekends. Although Belinda is of marriageable age, she has not gotten married yet. She often thinks about marriage and wonders if she is being left behind when she sees her younger nieces getting married, but does not seem to feel ready to settle down yet. Through the course of the novel, she is courted by three different young men. She leaves two of them behind when she goes to live in Boston because she feels as if they are pressuring her to make a decision for which she is not ready. The third leaves her behind in Boston when he finds himself falling in love with her because he realizes that they could never coexist happily because their two worlds are so different.
