Jessie Wise

Julie Crenshaw’s parents are killed in a plane crash just before she receives her college degree. She, her sister and parents had been a close family, and to fill the painful void in her life she marries a handsome detective on the Minneapolis police force. Immediately after the wedding, his demeanor changes from the gracious, caring person she had seen in him, to a cruel abuser whom she could not please. When his abuse begins to include their four-year old daughter, Julie takes the child and runs. She settles in North Florida where she makes new friends, finds the peace for which she was searching, but then … Nicholas Renfro finds her.