In Love with a Single Farmer-Daddy

Natalie is married to Rhett and living on his farm. He is raising his daughter Ellie by himself, and Ellie does not speak. Ellie wants nothing to do with Natalie, and neither does the woman next door. The marriage was put together by Natalie's grandmother and her sister for their own benefit, and Natalie was given no say in it. She stays and works at the place anyway. In time she works out that the neighbor has been mistreating Ellie when nobody is watching. Ellie starts letting her close, and when Natalie is in trouble Ellie speaks for the first time to get her out of it. Once Natalie has begun to settle in, Ellie is bullied at school, and Natalie is pulled into quarrels involving her old family and the one she married into.