All too soon, the townspeople realize she's not like them and treat her with the same disdain they give the Sisters of Mercy -- the nuns who help Thomas and the boys -- and Samuel, the quiet colored boy Thomas has taken in. With the Klan presence in the town growing ever stronger and the danger to this family increasing the longer she stays, Anna is torn between fleeing to keep them safe . . . and staying to fight beside them. Oh, that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest . . .
