Secrets, lies, and danger hide deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas during the Depression of 1930.

Sicily Rossi is a healer in the truest sense but wonders how one heals dark hatred. She knows the healing power of plants and taps into nature's remedies. Changing deep-set ways requires more than simple concoctions. Nature can't remove the rage from a vicious wife-beater, but somehow, Sicily must save the young girl from a horrible fate and/or a life of torment.

An orphan teen and dog that Sicily finds living in the woods fills her loneliness and, as she teaches him the natural healing power of plants, they fight to help the girl along with the town's starving residents. Together, they come up with a plan to feed them all and perhaps be a catalyst for change.

Yet, will their efforts be enough to save them all from a man bent on destruction?