The Great War is ending in Europe, and Captain Daniel Wood, M.D., is anxious to return to his wife, Ella, and their two little girls--but he has a secret that could upend their happy reunion. Waiting back home in Myrna, Arkansas, Ella has her own worries as she and the girls deal with a deadly outbreak of the Spanish flu raging across the land. War and disease are only two of the challenges this resilient family faces as this debut novel unfolds, however. From the ravages of World War I, through racial tensions in the Mississippi Delta, to the great flood of 1927 and a personal tragedy in the months leading up to the stock market crash in 1929, the Woods depend on faith, friends, and family to weather the storms of rural life in 1920s Arkansas.