One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello\u2019s life is changed forever.<\/p>\n
It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby\u2019s father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess\u2019s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows her no affection. Tess quickly realizes she\u2019s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out.<\/p>\n
The people of Hickory love and respect Henry but see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. When one of the town\u2019s golden girls dies in a terrible accident, everyone holds Tess responsible. But Henry keeps his secrets even closer now, though it seems that everyone knows something about him that Tess does not.<\/p>\n
When a sudden polio epidemic strikes Hickory, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess knows she is needed and defies Henry\u2019s wishes to begin working at there. Through this work, she begins to find purpose and meaning. Yet at home, Henry\u2019s actions grow more alarming by the day. As Tess works to save the lives of her patients, can she untangle the truth behind her husband\u2019s mysterious behavior and find the love\u2014and the life\u2014she was meant to have?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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