San Antonio, 1876. Bailey Rose lives under the porch of a whorehouse in San Antonio, raised by a drug-addicted mother and a violent madam. In a desperate attempt to reject her preordained life as a soiled dove, she sneaks off to school one fine day, and there she meets Jacob Naplava, the kindest boy she has ever known. What follows is a wondrous journey to Jacob's sheep ranch in the Hill Country, where supernatural events begin to unfold-some beautiful,...

Bailey Rose has a ring on her left ring finger: a diamond too big and refined for her rough, chapped hand, from a man she loves like a brother. She has another ring, too, on her other hand: a plain wooden band, carved for her by the man she loves, heart, body, and soul.

Bailey Rose is home again, and in the midst of establishing a clinic for the women and children of the San Antonio Red Light District, Bailey encounters the phantom boy from her past. The mystical, wondrous Utopia that dwelled in her memory had really happened, and here was the boy-now a man-who had lived it with her. But a wall is erected between them, fueled by a violent secret from her past, her unwavering dreams for the future, and his baffling...