Description

The friendship between Lena Kaiser a sodbusters daughter and Gustie Roemer an educated Easterner is unlikely in any other circumstance but postfrontier Charity South Dakota Gustie is considered an outsider and Lena is too proud to share her problems which include a harddrinking husband with anyone else

On the nearby Sioux reservation Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women Dorcas Many Roads an old medicine woman and her adopted granddaughter Jordis who bears the scars of the white mans education

When Lenas husband is arrested for murdering his father and the secrets of Gusties past follow her to Charity Lena Gustie and Jordis stand together As buried horrors are unearthed and present tragedies unfold they discover the strength and beauty of love and friendship that blossom like wild flowers in the tough prairie soil

Contains mature themes