"Some love stories don't begin with fireworks-they begin with letters."
In the summer of 1934, Mary Antoinette Meister is already considered an old maid at twenty-two. Life in Batesville, Indiana, hasn't offered much beyond chores and quiet expectations. So when she's invited to help her brother, Father John, a Franciscan priest stationed in Port Sulphur, Louisiana, she agrees-more out of duty than curiosity.
She expects heat, mosquitos, and mass. She doesn't expect Oscar Buras. A sixth-generation son of the bayou, Oscar is smitten the moment he sees Mary. But she's unimpressed-and uninterested. Still, her brother encourages the unlikely suitor, seeing something good and steady in the young man.