Raised in a Charleston house Jesse wants for nothing but as she grows in to a young adult, all she feels his loss and desperate need to break free from possessiveness of her parents. Now at 19 she has escaped to Washington DC where no one knows her and where she is swept into whirlwind of marriage to a Texas senator son, she discovers the strength to penetrate the darkness and find her way back to a place she can call home. Dramatic riveting and delicious page Turner.