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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping romance, where we follow the tumultuous lives of a New England refugee and a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family.

1875. When Catherine Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town in the Sierra Nevada, the last thing she thinks about is falling in love. Her wealthy stepfather has kicked her out of Boston, so she's come to this backwoods town to inherit the legacy of an uncle she never knew: an abandoned newspaper office on the main street, lined with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly unimportant mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Catherine decides to resume publishing her uncle's newspaper, taking on the most powerful people in Calvada. But she intends to continue to say - and publish - whatever she wants, especially when she is sure she is right.