Not only are women in scarce supply in the frontier town of Little Rock, Arkansas, but all the girls stare at him like he's something mysterious and dangerous. He loved his Cherokee mother, yet the townsfolk never understood her. Except for his housekeeper Harriet, Lizzie Emmerson can never trust again. The man she loved turned his back on her when she fell pregnant; her parents rejected her, and Little does Lizzie know that a Cherokee woman thousands of miles away will choose Lizzie to become her son's wife. She considers Lizzie her last gift to Terence.