Louise was a lonely seventeen year old girl living on a tenant farm in Eastern North Carolina. She met Louis one day while walking along the back of their farm. They became involved in a passionate romance before she discovered that Louis was married. The disappearance and search for Louis' wife leads through intrigue and adventure that can only lead to disaster. The book has a theme of doing wrong when you know to do the right thing. As you might expect, the devil is lurking in the background, out of sight, ready to claim a victory, as he always is.
A plot not of the standard variety. Not often is the heroine also the bad guy, and you find yourself reluctantly hoping that she will find a satisfactory way of surviving the dilemma she got herself into. Is it possible she has only herself to blame for her situation or did she have some otherworldly assistance? I enjoyed not only the story, but just as much the historical background of a more innocent time in eastern North Carolina.