Annabelle's a free woman. Her only desire is to become a healer like her dead father once was and to protect the people she loves. Life is sweet. That is until an outlaw by the name of Jeremiah 'One Finger' Polk was found unconscious on her land. Annabelle's initial curiosity over his presence and desire to heal him from his serious wounds blooms into a forbidden encounter that will threaten the towns' very existence and even her own. Jeremiah Polk is a wanted man. Driven by the need for vengeance and retribution, he barely escapes the hangman's noose and gun. When he wakes and finds a beautiful brown skin woman nursing him back to health, he thinks it's a dream. He soon learns of the free people of color and the hidden town at the foot of the mountain that could be his sanctuary. He also finds himself drawn to the promise of redemption. But will his demons, both real and imagined, rob him of the chance? Can love survive the racial tensions between Annabelle and him post-civil war?