Grace Morris was a young woman of exceptional character and discipline. Kentucky educated. In control of her emotions. At least until her second cousin, Will Claxton, came along. Before she knew what was happening, she was in love, consumed. He asked her to marry him, but her father said no, and in an instant, the love she cherished became forbidden, a destroying love. Daughter against father. Father against mother. Son against parents. Yet, despite her father's objections, she told Will she would marry him as soon as he returned from fighting in the Great War in France. Then a bizarre encounter with a German couple changed her fate forever. She fled to Philadelphia, knowing that if she met his train, she would marry him. He followed her, and no matter what she said or did, he wouldn't let her go. She realized she would have to go where he could never find her, to a teaching position on the plains of Oklahoma. Without telling her family where she was going or how long she would be gone, she left Kentucky on a train to "all points west." Yet someone saw her leave and tipped off Will. He followed on the train immediately behind her. Two people desperately in love, searching for a life together. From the necklace of a fallen Comanche warrior, a chinaberry tree grows wild on the Great Plains. Its flower is beautiful. Its fruit is deadly. Who would have guessed that this mystical tree of beauty and death could seed a saga of love lost and found? In a story spanning three generations, two women make their way to an unforgiving land at the turn of the twentieth century to find unlikely husbands and birth dynasties of hope and redemption from the poison of indifference and rejection.Beneath the Poison Tree: Forbidden (Book 2)