This historical novel/novella is a tragic love story -- and murder -- set in Gage County, Nebraska, in the early 1890s. It exposes the forbidden love affair between Hannah Husemueller, a beautiful young German Lutheran farm girl and teacher at the one-room school, and Emitt Baptiste, a ruggedly handsome "half-breed" from the Otoe-Missouria Reservation in southern Gage County.