Revenge is not always sweet. Can their love survive a feud between mountain people and the moonshiners who are determined to take away all they hold dear? Phoebe Lillie grows worried when her Pa doesn't return after what she thought was a routine hunting trip. Then, the new handsome schoolteacher arrives in Pine Ridge and starts wanting to make changes with his city ways. She resents his attentions, wanting only to find her Pa. When her and the teacher stumble across an illegal whiskey still, they are thrust into a feud that threatens to tear them, and the Ozark mountain hollow, apart. Then Phoebe is subjected to a horrible attack. Revenge fills her soul. Can God bring her out of her suffocating need for revenge before she loses Jacob's love? Jacob Wright, takes the job of schoolteacher in Pine Ridge, after his job in law enforcement results in an innocent woman's untimely death. He's sworn never to draw his gun on another living person. He doesn't expect his new job to put him in the middle of a feud straight out of the wild west. Jacob must choose between his resolve and the life of the woman he loves. Set during the Depression in the Ozark mountains, this story is sure to please readers of both historical and romantic suspense. Full of grace, forgiveness, and redemption, it still has plenty of danger for the most avid suspense fan.