In stunned disbelief, Martha Prewitt gapes at her stepfather. He's accusing her of killing her mother? She didn't do it. "Run fast " He sneers, nearly spitting on her. "Or I'll turn you in, and you'll hang."Martha has only one place to run. Bart Wilson, her betrothed in Sweetwater, Arkansas. Arriving on his doorstep-half-frozen and nearly starved-she falls into his house at his feet. Bart tends to her, bringing her back to health...