It's 1881, Kathryn Leikner has escaped her past and has become Morgan Tace, a skilled horse whisperer.

The peace surrounding her as she sits on her horse on top of a mountain on her nineteenth birthday is suddenly shattered by a gunshot. And her heart and life are no longer safe.

Guy Hardin had left the attitudes and sins of his past to become a circuit-riding preacher. Then he kills a man. And he begins to wear the past like an old cloak suddenly returned to him.

Learning to love can seem to be an obstacle higher than a mountain in the Bitterroots for two people hurt by the past.

Perhaps, the Reverend Jeremiah and his mule, Babe, can lend a helping hand.