Susannah feels betrayed. Susannah Killion feels like God deserted her over four years ago when her husband was killed at war. Everything shes done since, shes done on her own. So what is God doing when He sends the surveyor for the dreaded railroad to her doorstepand he turns out to be the man who caused her husbands death? Thad Sutton arrives in Promise, Indiana, knowing his welcome will be tenuous at best. He works for the railroad, the arrival of which will likely sound the death knell for the canal-dependent town. Not only that, but he bears a long-overdue letter for a widow of a soldier under his command. But he couldnt have expected what happens when he meets the Widow Killion. Gods mysterious ways are at work in Promise, Indiana, and the town will never be the same again.