At twenty-one, Theresa Weir falls in love with Adrian
Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchard are said
to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with
Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected
by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns about the isolated
world of farming even as she falls more deeply in love with her husband, a man
she at first hardly knew.