Zadie Larkford, recently graduated from an Eastern women\'s college, lives a quiet life in her hometown of Franklin, Virginia.
Raised in a seafaring community in North Carolina, Du.
Ultimately unable to disobey, she leaves her childhood home to travel - unaccompanied - to Creed\'s Crossing, Wyoming to meet her betrothed.
Content to spend her days painting by the river and watching her friends marry, she is shocked to learn that her father has promised her hand in marriage to a complete stranger.
Zadie Larkford, recently graduated from an Eastern women\'s college, lives a quiet life in her hometown of Franklin, Virginia