Life in Defiance

In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands, Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood, constantly falling short, but determined to improve.Through all that self-improvement, Ouisie carries a terrible secret: she knows who killed Daisy Chance. As her children inch closer to uncovering the killerÆs identity and HapÆs rages roar louder and become increasingly violent, Ouisie has to make a decision. Will she protect her children by telling her secret? Or will HapÆs violence silence them all?Set on the backdrop of Defiance, Texas, OuisieÆs journey typifies the choices we all faceÙwhether to tell the truth about secrets and fight for the truth or bury them forever and live with the violent consequences.