Jude Deveraux, Rosalia Vazquez Tomas
After the Civil War, Carrie, daughter of a rancid family in Maine, northwestern United States, falls in love passionately of the melancholic eyes of Joshua Greene, a farmer widower with two children who need to find a wife who can help in the work of the farm. The passion of Carrie drag both to live a turbulent love story marked by the social gulf that separates them and prevents them from accepting the dimensions of a love threatened by the tragedy.