On her wedding night, seventeen-year-oldAnna Langtry stole her husband’s carand fled into the darkness, racing towardfreedom. She felt only desperation toescape the nightmare of her Coloradohome—an isolated rural community thatcondoned her forced polygamousmarriage to become one man’s third wife. Fifteen years later, Anna is working as a federalprobation officer in Denver. A fighter for theunderdog, even she cannot escape the cynicismof her profession. She doesn’t expect muchfrom her newest parolee, just the usual sobstory about being innocent and misunderstood.But Joe Mackenzie is different.