Forced to flee his South Carolina farm, seventeen-year-old Calvin Banneck leads a small group of females across six states and through countless heart-wrenching events that would tax the will and determination of a much older man. Along the way he discovers sex, experiences jealousy and comes close to killing a man. In Texas, he is put on trial for a murder that he did not commit. How does a high class brothel and the man who works there fit into Cal’s world and why does this man seek out and pay one of the best lawyers in Austin to represent Cal? And even after Providence sets the stage, does Cal learn what really happened to Sammie; the girl he secretly loved and had hoped one day to marry?