Evelyn Rose Whitten's story begins in 1948 when she has just turned seventeen. Eve, though still in High School, finds herself in a heated romance which leaves her needing a hasty marriage. One moment she is a school girl and the next she is a married woman with a child on the way. Facing ever more difficult trials and decisions, her life is caught in a raging tempest she fights to master but cannot contain. Witness her struggle through a series of letters as she strives to discover herself and determine which means more, love or honor.