How much disappointment and hardship does it take to get to the truth of who a person is?This is Marilyn Abbot's story. A once small town, Southern girl, poor and neglected, forever tied to a childhood love - FrankLivingston, now sheriff of Shelby County; a man who represents all that is good in the world, yet a man who refused to claim the woman he loves and the child they conceived. The novel opens in Memphis, Tennessee. Marilyn's husband, Hudson...