In 1859 Asheville, NC at the Beaver Creek Plantation Jenny Mae Severt meets a young half-Cherokee named Callie Calloway for a brief moment at her father Silas Severt's wedding to Susan Mash. As fate has it she also meets her arranged match Jackson, who just hapens to be a businessman and her uncle from Johnson, TN. Knowing she needs to be a proper young lady she's willing to deal with her arrangement, but as the years go by will she find herself content with Jackson or will she find forbidden love with Callie? Callie Calloway was known as the half-blood since he had an Irish father and a Cherokee mother. He wasn't well liked in town and he only had one friend, Teegan Maloney. After a chance meeting with the groom's daughter at a wedding he gets a desire for her. As time goes on will Callie move forward and forget the strawberry haired girl that's impossible to claim or will he make her his and forge a forbidden love with Jenny Mae?