Redwood, California, 1890Meet Madeline Brown, a city girl who's lost everything save for her faith in God. With nothing left to lose, and no future left in her city, she agrees to become a mail-order bride and marry Peter Donahue, a small-town California farmer with a big heart. But Peter has a secret. And when the two of them meet at last--after circumstances conspire to almost keep them apart forever--the last thing they expect is to find love or...