Susan Anderson has spent the majority of her young life living on the outskirts of society in the small town of Cabot, North Carolina. Intelligent and naturally beautiful, Susan is determined to overcome her illegitimacy, the haunting death of her mother, and her subsequent teenage life in the local children's home. Love finds Susan in the guise of Rick Pierce, a classmate from one of Cabot's wealthiest families. Rick has blue eyes, curly hair, a...