Pretty Lonnie Sawyer is shy and innocent, used to fading into the background. Despite her family's poverty and her abusive father, she clings to a quiet faith. But when handsome ladies' man and bluegrass musician Gideon O'Riley steals a kiss, Lonnie's fate is sealed. Her father forces her into a hasty marriage with a man she barely knows, and Gideon forces her on an arduous journey away from her home. What will it take to heal their two fractured hearts?