A personal memoir from a young woman born into the changing South of the 1950s, the child of a well-loved Methodist preacher and his hardworking wife, Ruth. Jacqueline loves God wholeheartedly, but still finds herself in conflict with some of her parents' teachings. Trying to please everyone, she makes a disastrous early marriage to a charming and handsome man who hides a terrible secret that eventually leads Jackie to break with her past and find...