"Handsome widower Judge Lawson Ipswich had moved west from Boston to Meadowlark Lake, looking for a fresh start. His three grown daughters accompanied him, but his middle daughter, nineteen-year-old Amoretta, feels as though she has been uprooted and will never be happy again. All that will change when she meets the handsome gristmill worker Brake McClendon and the beautiful gypsy woman who lives in the woods"-- Provided by publisher.