The year is 1845, and Caroline is determined to dig up the story of the century—Mormon polygamy. A journalist from Philadelphia, Caroline refuses to be distracted from her goal—even when she finds herself falling in love with the daring Dan Storm, a guard at the Nauvoo Temple construction site. Blackmail from Boggs, a slave revolt in a Mexican gold mine, a vicious dog, a surprise Indian raid, an unexpected death, a midnight buffalo stampede, an unorthodox Mormon bishop, and an early winter storm on the continental divide bring this novel to an unexpected conclusion.