Elizabeth Fairchilds, the main character in this third novel in the trilogy, Three Young Ladies of Clarke, to her dismay, arrives in Berryville, Virginia as the new owner of a hat shop. The year is 1916. At age twenty her life has turned upside down. Everything is foreign to her: living on her own, running a business, the town and its people. With the aid of a local young woman, Elizabeth struggles out of her troubled world and shows strength of character as she forges ahead in her quest to regain what is rightfully hers.