Rachel is sad that they do not have children, but is content to be with Andrew. Although she is crushed by the accusation, Rachel marries Andrew, and after they return to Nashville, the couple spend two happy years together. Before he leaves, however, Andrew receives a letter from John announcing that Lewis has gotten a divorce, charging Rachel with adultery. Rachel refuses to let Andrew give up his career and asks him to return to Nashville to obtain a divorce for her. In Spanish-controlled Natchez, Andrew tells Rachel that she could obtain an annulment there and they could marry, but that their marriage would not be legal in the United States. Andrew volunteers, and after they fend off an Indian attack, the couple kiss and realize that they have fallen in love. Stark to take Rachel to Natchez, but the Starks refuse to accept the responsibility unless a man accompanies Rachel. Lewis demands that Rachel leave with him, and when she refuses, he threatens to return the following morning with gun-toting relatives. When they arrive at the farm in the morning, they learn that Lewis has arrived before them. The couple evade a band of Indians, then stop for the night at an inn to avoid further danger. Infuriated, Lewis pulls a gun on Andrew, but Andrew easily disarms him and leaves with Rachel. Donelson, telling her that Rachel wishes to go back to Nashville, and Mrs. Lewis apologizes for his jealous, antagonistic behavior, but upon their return, Rachel discovers that Lewis has been having an affair with a slave girl. Andrew becomes infatuated with the lovely Rachel and is disappointed when her moody husband, Lewis Robards, comes from Harrodsburg to ask her to return home. Donelson welcomes the young attorney, who also has experience fighting Indians. John Overton, Andrew's law partner and Rachel's cousin, had recommended Andrew, and Mrs. In 1789, Rachel Donelson Robards meets Tennessee's attorney general, Andrew Jackson, for the first time when he seeks room and board at her mother's farm near Nashville.
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