Mitchell Beale knew his world would despise him for loving Ann Wills. He was white and she was colored. But Mitch was drawn irresistibly to the beauty of this girl, to the hope of love she gave him. Mitch and Ann's passion grew, though it meant nothing but torment to them both. Mitch's family, fearing a marriage, tried to wreck the affair. But theirs was no cheap liaison. It was a fierce, tortured groping for a solution to a problem deeper than difference in race...a gap neither of them knew how to bridge.