Contessa Turner finds herself caught in a web of secrets far beyond what her vivid imagination could have contrived. Recently married, the young Bostonian reluctantly journeys to her husband's hometown to begin a life far different from that of her upbringing. The hardships of surviving in the late 1800's in a small West Texas town challenge her aristocratic sensibilities. Battling bitterness from her new situation and suppressing emotions from a privileged but difficult childhood, she avoids her pain by committing herself to the unraveling of an unexpected mystery. Determined to disclose the unknowns from the past of another, her own life is forever changed. Will she offer forgiveness to those who have caused her considerable suffering? Will she extend the grace that she herself desperately needs? Ultimately, she discovers that an unseen hand has been at work in her life, and she will never be the same.
