Ozark Mountains, 1867 . Jessamine Randall, fearless crusader and champion of the downtrodden, is not a woman to be left waiting at the altar. When her fiancé disappears hours before their wedding, Jessy hatches a plan to track him down and bring him back where he belongs. Morgan Bingham knows he’s no good. Never has been. Never will be. A former outlaw is no fit husband for the only daughter of the town judge, despite her misguided notions. Ill-prepared, but armed with unshakeable certainty, Jessy follows Morgan to his family’s cabin deep in the hills where she’s sucked into a whirlpool of dark secrets and old hatreds. While she struggles to bring light and hope into their dark lives, her greatest challenge is Morgan himself. Can she ever convince him he’s worthy of love?