Mary Avery was perfectly happy with her handsome husband, their beautiful baby boy, and their cozy cabin home—until the accident that left her permanently scarred. When her husband takes their son and abandons her, Mary gets another chance by running away to Arkansas Territory with her brother-in-law John David McKellar and his grieving brother, Matthew. Mary is rebuilding her life when she runs into a big complication—she’s fallen in love with Matthew, though she’s still bound in marriage to the man who deserted her. John David suggests the scandalous solution of petitioning for divorce, setting Mary on a path that crosses with others who share her suffering—a young man forced to hide his real self, a man whose big heart covers past sorrows, and a Choctaw girl driven from her home and separated from her family.
