Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge.
When Emma\'s prospective fails to show up at the train depot, Addie breaks all her principles to shelter the g.
It isn\'t often that Addie is drawn to anyone as a friend, but Emma seems different somehow.
And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie\'s savvy and wary eye.
Emma\'s brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met.
Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge