When Hannah Hamilton is born with a shriveled foot, her sick mother knows she'll never live to raise the child. Upon her mother's death two years later, Hannah's two older sisters care for her until their father finally admits that the child will never walk. Hannah is sent to live a lonely life with her widowed Aunt Verbena Wedington in Savannah. Though Hannah's sisters attempt to visit her, they are thwarted by their Aunt Verbena, who manages to...