Georgia girl Leah Holley can't quite explain how she allowed herself to be goaded into taking a marriage-improvement class, especially one that promises to whip her into a submissive Christian wife. Sure, her marriage may be flagging a bit, but the whole idea of bolstering it with archaic man-pleasing techniques seems like a joke-until suddenly the tricks seem to work wonders. Could her relatives' fundamentalist religious beliefs be true? Just when Leah vows to stop snickering and be truly sincere in her efforts to love, honor, and respect her husband at all times, forever, no matter what, she learns their relationship is in a darker place than she had thought, and that he has spent the entire past year-right in the middle of their living room-involved in something that causes her to fear she will never again feel secure within the walls of her own home.