Franklin, Tennessee, 1889. A wealthy Southern town is still recovering from the devastating Civil War twenty-five years earlier. A beloved preacher, Samuel, is guiding the community to a new age of love and hope with his beautiful wife Leann and his children. This spiritual leader gives an impression of the perfect life until forbidden love comes along.

After ten years of marriage, Leann loses the love and passion she had for Samuel. Samuel falls into a deep depression. As his heart begs for a love he once knew, a beautiful woman of color, Clara, rekindles the life he had before. Soon friendship turns to lust and lust to love. A forbidden love affair between a white preacher and a black woman is born in this segregated town. The secret lives for only a few months until someone finds out, but it is too late. Clara is with child.

 Follow this original story through lust, love, murder, and war as one man's journey goes from this life to the next.

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