"There ain''t no use for ye to get het up," the old woman continued as she spit tobacco juice on the ground. "Ye ain''t the first do-gooders thet has tried to take over my hollers. I done sent them packing, and ye might as well git ready to go too!" As the new wife of a preacher assigned to his first church in the backwoods of the Ozark Mountains, Ann Nilson finds herself torn between the superstitions, beliefs, and poverty of the people around her/ memories of her life in Denver; and the threats of her former lover. Discover the quiet beauty and strength of the Ozark''s hill people in this haunting tale of one woman''s struggle for love and self-esteem in the early 1920s.