Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants.
With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, this pampered gentlewoman hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmo.
And when her father brings home a new wife who is young enough to be Charlotte\'s sister, it is more than she can bear.
But when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers--a religious group that does not marry--she is left dumbfounded.
Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants