J. Lybrand Kuhn opens her story in post World War I Germany where nine year old Isolde is taken against her will to a small town in Texas to work in her Great Uncle's bakery. Based on a true story, Kuhn takes the reader through the Jim Crow culture of the time and into a plague that beset the first half of the twentieth century. Isolde's search for love and determination to beat the odds will have you cheering.