Jenice Graham Benedict’s true-life epic spans a hundred years beginning with her great-great-grandfather, an Alabama Confederate soldier, and continues with her Southern family through six other protagonists. Each of the novel’s characters typifies a segment of the American dream, living it in their own way, along with their great sacrifices.

The Morgan brothers settled Morgan's Bridge, Michigan in 1848. Amanda Stimpson arrives in Morgan's Bridge from Chicago in the 1990's to discover her secretly kept background.