In 1798, Callie Trent travels with her parents in a wagon train to the frontier of Tennessee. Before they reach the settlement where they will live, her father tells her he has arranged a marriage with her and Jacob McGinnis, a man she has never met. Callie objects to the marriage, and when she meets Jacob, he is not so bad, but she has come to the mountains to teach the children in the settlement, not to get married. Before they...