Out of the Night Came She

Jenny Peterson drives off into the night, fleeing from her violent husband. But halfway into the sparsely inhabited expanse of Montana's Paradise Valley, her car's engine dies. On the verge of despair, she spots a dirt road leading up into a wooded glen. She ascends the road, not realizing that she is walking toward an entirely new version of her life.

Ian O'Connell is a well-known author who bought that glen and lives within it, and it is there that he provides shelter for Jenny. But during...