A young Southern girl boards a Greyhound bus to New York City in the early 1950s. The path she travels is full of both challenges and joys, and includes several romantic entanglements. But after she marries, terrifying developments ultimately disclose her new husband's secret intentions, which pose a grave threat to her life. Nevertheless, through the turbulence and turmoil she encounters courageous men and women of faith who help shape her burgeoning spiritual growth. Set amidst evangelical Christian culture of the 1950s and 60s, this captivating story of a young girl blossoming into womanhood displays the power of love and forgiveness and extols the grace of God.