Escape...A painful past...Hope for the future...Ophelia Shipp wants safety, a home, husband, and to raise a family. To achieve her goal, she travels halfway across the country to a tiny Texas town, Tarnation. What awaits her there must be better than what she left. She longs for a respectable man who will be a gentle and kind husband.Elias Kendrick had a difficult childhood but he has overcome poverty to build his empire in Tarnation. Now that he...