Twenty-four-year-old Maureen McKenna has once again been labeled "incorrigible." But in her heart, she carries a terrible secret. She is sent to live with Mary and Robert Richards, where she finds kindness for the first time in her life. She also meets Ross Chandler, who may be the key to showing her how to love and be loved in return. Ross's daughter, Sarah, witnessed the murder of her mother and will no longer speak. The child lives with a horrible secret of her own. Linda and John Shelton are Maureen's very first friends and from them, Maureen receives the gift of laughter. But there are more murders committed, and Maureen is a target. Could the Padgitt boys be the perpetrators? Only Sarah knows the truth, but she remains mute. Look for humor, romance and a surprise ending in this story set in Bozeman, Montana, in the mid-1870s.