Maisie Slaughter is far from traditional in her Christianity. She worships God in a way some call dangerous to the community. Though she is friendless and shunned, she has a lone admirer. Adam Woods sees only beauty and wonder in her. When a man seeks revenge for a crime nearly twenty years old, Maisie is institutionalized and Adam is jailed. Despite his knowledge that Maisie may never love him the way he loves her, Adam refuses to let Maisie be destroyed, even if it means that in the process, he will be.