<p>It's 1881 Kathryn Leikner has escaped her past and has become Morgan Tace a skilled horse whisperer. </p><p> </p><p>The peace surrounding her as she sits on her horse on top of a mountain on her nineteenth birthday is suddenly shattered by a gunshot. And her heart and life are no longer safe.</p><p> </p><p>Guy Hardin had left the attitudes and sins of his past to become a circuit-riding preacher. Then he kills a man. And he begins to wear the past like an old cloak suddenly returned to him.</p><p> </p><p>Learning to love can seem to be an obstacle higher than a mountain in the Bitterroots for two people hurt by the past. </p><p> </p><p>Perhaps the Reverend Jeremiah and his mule Babe can lend a helping hand.</p>