内容简介：
The young and beautiful Hattie Morran sees her life change in a moment. A poor Missouri farmeras daughter at the turn of the twentieth century, she is forced to marry the son of one of the richest women in America to protect her family, but just when it looks as though all hope is lost, her future mother-in-law, Rebecca Garland, decides to do the unthinkable. Rebecca decides to give her entire fortune to Hattie on the day of the marriage, bypassing her unscrupulous husband and son, Jess and Abner Garland, who, along with Hattieas tyrannical father, Newton, orchestrated the whole sordid affair. In the months and years after Hattieas divorce, Abner makes it his lifeas work to get even with his mother and Hattie for what they did to him and his father. Like the devil himself, he stops at nothing to make Hattieas life miserable. Through it all, though, Hattie stays strong, showing undaunted courage in the face of adversity, while weaving her way through The Fires of Love and Hate.