Struggling to uphold her faith and her family at the height of the Great Depression, Lanie dreams of becoming a writer, but her dreams are shattered when her father is diagnosed with cancer and a new crisis rocks the town Fairhope.

Joel Bradford poses as a Tory in order to spy on the British in New York. He falls in love with Heather Reed, who hates him for being a Loyalist.

Raina Vernay is a slave to her brother-in-law's brutal bidding in a seedy Louisiana saloon. She's at the end of her rope, when a mysterious stranger, Ty Kincaid, arrives in town from Mexico, headed for Arkansas by way of the riverboats, and Raina's mind starts churning a plan. She longs to find the father she's never known, and Ty just might be her ticket to Indian Territory. But when Ty lands himself in jail, Raina has to wonder if this wanted man...