Pretty Lonnie Sawyer is shy and innocent, used to fading into the background among the Appalachian hills. Though her family is poor and her father abusive, she clings to a quiet faith. But when handsome ladies' man and bluegrass musician Gideon O'Riley steals a kiss, her fate is sealed. Lonnie's father forces her into a hasty marriage with a man she barely knows and does not love. Equally frustrated and confused, Gideon forces Lonnie on an arduous journey away from her home. What will it take to heal their two fractured hearts?