"A mule ain't worth going to jail over," she would have cried out if a woman's words counted in a yard full of men. Dimmert didn't have much in the way of worldly possessions, but he had his pride. She knew better than to mess with that.

In 1893 among the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Cara Whitt finds herself newly married and living in a rickety cabin on the backside of nowhere. When her husband is arrested for stealing his own mule, she's left alone, afraid, and in charge of the farm. The only man who can help them is the town attorney, who has his eye on Cara's sister-in-law Darcy . . . and the Whitt family land. As she struggles to make it on her own, Cara discovers the determination and faith to survive.