Just as he did for her six older sisters, a poor widowed innkeeper must find a young man to marry his beloved youngest daughter. But Marah is determined to thwart her father's plans. Her mutinous refusal to marry any of the young men her father suggests lands her in a marriage of her own making - one far different than anything she ever imagined. Alone in a strange city, Marah is tormented by a whisper of guilt and self-doubt. She hides her fears through an orderly life of outward privilege... until an itinerant stranger throws Marah's world into a chaos. She's forced to face her past and...