The co-owner of an elegant gift shop, mother of two children, and wife to Washington, D.C.’s most celebrated African-American criminal attorney, Morgana Johnson-Wells has a perfect life. But when her mother dies and she learns her too-good-to-be-true husband is having an affair, she escapes to her hometown of Salvation, Georgia. There, her mother’s diaries bring to vivid life decades-old rumors of adultery, voodoo spells, and carnal vices. Soon Morgana must answer the same question her mother asked: Is her marriage worth fighting for?