Carson Dulaney had traveled all the way across the states from Georgia to settle what was left of his family on his father's ranch. He thought things would go smoothly along the way, but didn't realize that the west was a lot more uncivilized than he had hoped for. In fact, had the civil war not been recently ended, he would have thought the fighting was still going on, only this time with indians and whites. And so he met Winter Fawn on a tragic happenstance. One that left him on the run and her gravely injured. They will travel perilously over the mountains of Colorado with his daughter and his sister, Winter Fawn's father and brother, trying to outrun the indians who would kill them. Winter Fawn will learn the ways of the white man and hold a secret deep down inside so that she will fit into this new life, but it will only alienate her from those she loves in the end. ( )