A young, poor, Mulatto girl is a victim of prejudices in Skyler, North Carolina, and is mercilessly attacked and threatened. The day finally comes when Jessica Sanford leaves the hurt behind her in a search for answers. She finds a temporary career as a Vegas show-dancer, drawn in by the money. In Vegas, novelist Rachel O'Neill, from England, is a guest speaker at a writers' conference. Nearing sixty years old and three years a widow, she is piecing...