Love Rooted in the Fields

Cary West is twenty-four when her father decides she will be married off to a stranger out in a remote village, in place of her sister Katy, who has always been the one he favours. The husband is Simon Zimmer. He turns out to be the wealthiest man in Oceana, though nobody in the village behaves as if that were true, and his mother Muse Keller takes to Cary immediately and looks after her. Katy and her husband Howard Gibson do not let the matter rest, and keep coming after Cary and her family. It goes on until Simon has had enough of it and stops pretending to be an ordinary farmer, and the Gibson family's fortunes come apart. Cary and Simon go back to the quiet life on the land.