One young couple finds the courage to follow their own hearts and defy an angry town in order to wed. But with her silence young governess Cornelia Tuttle rejects the charming Cherokee from Arkansas Territory named Edmund Webber. She was a proper New England pastor’s daughter who couldn’t risk the scandal that marrying an Indian would bring her family. He was a man of faith caught between two cultures who could not bring himself to ask her again. This dramatic novel, based in history, sets in motion the events leading up to the tragic Trail of Tears journey that would push a proud native people west to the Neosho District of Indian Territory.