In the wake of the Civil War, Merry Sherman and her sisters were forced to accept untenable situations that left them at the mercy of wealthy men's capricious whims. But when Merry is forcefully expelled from the estate she served, the specter of homelessness and hunger is all she can see.

When his aunt tosses a housemaid down the grand staircase of her home, the desperate girl left crumpled at the bottom tries to crawl away from the furious matron's rage. And Tedrick Barr knows he must intervene. But how can he possibly make a difference in the girl's life when he's barely of an age to care for himself?

All Teddy knows is that he must get Merry away from the vindictive woman set on destroying her and the men who disgraced her. Where that journey will take them, nobody knows. Yet, faith always finds a way.