When Emily was a child, there was no one that she admired more than her mother. She had perceived her as beautiful, strong, and faithful in a time when most other women had their husbands in their homes to provide for them. Emily never knew the reason her mother never remarried after the life of the man she had always known to have been her father was lost, but as the years passed, and her mother's addictions were no longer kept from her knowledge, Emily was determined to find the truth that she prayed could save her. She left the only home that she had ever known to find the answers, but when her journey led her to the settlement of Fair End Ridge, she began to realize that the truth wasn't the only blessing the Lord had waiting for her when she arrived.