Introduction He can't seem to shake the memory. From the top floor of his office building, he stands in the window and looks out over his domain, one of the cities that never sleeps in the north. His mind is drawn to a simple uncluttered encounter. It was just a brief moment, a second or two at most, but the scene has stuck in his mind for over 15 years. Miles away in a much smaller town filled with muddy dirt roads, on the outskirts of a place called the 'Shanty Town', Mrs. Craft remembers a person she happened to meet purely by accident at the train station's taxi turnabout. She didn't befriend the man and barely said thank you as he held the taxi door for her to take possession. But as he held the door, there was an undeniable sensation that he'd see her again. He was leaving town, she was trapped in it. The image of the young lady has haunted the man in the window hundreds of miles away in a world unfamiliar with 'The Shanties, ' its collection of shacks, and one of its inhabitants. The Farrington dynasty finds itself embroiled in a tale of a Matriarch, her sons, and their unrelenting social antics that will result in changing everyone's lives that they come in contact with in the deep sultry Southern states. For Sophia and Felicity, no greater betrayal could've transpired. No greater sorrow born than that which was perpetrated by the Farrington Dynasty. Yet, even in the throws of poverty, in the untold languishing, there is still an ember that burns within the heart of the woman living under the Oak umbrellas sequestered away from the one she has loved an entire lifetime.