Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her
longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a
woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon.
But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America.
She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can
hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into
the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack,
a man who fears himself capable of anything.