After a gruelling escape to the north, Belle Palmer is free, yet lost and alone. Separated from her father on the harrowing journey, she has no where to turn until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she has ever known. For the first time she can express herself freely, except for her feelings for Daniel Best. He is educated and handsome, full of promise and dreams of his people. So when a bedraggled stranger arrives in his home and turns into a vibrant, lovely woman, his attraction takes him by surpise.

Genre: Romance