Trust collapses, and Zoe Brooks walks away when Ethan Parker’s decision to take a concubine pushes their love past repair. Family resentment only makes the break harder to mend. Wendy Miller then steps into the already fragile bond, and after pain, suspicion, and reluctant acceptance, tragedy strikes—Ethan falls to his death while on official duty. Zoe goes back to her father in the Riverlands, finally free, while Ethan pays forever for the love he could not keep.