After facing the loss of her family during the Civil War, eighteen-year-old Adair is imprisoned in a filthy St. Louis women's prison, and a Union major who interviews her falls in love and promises to return for her.
After the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and taking her widowed father away, Adair Colley sets out on foot with her two young sisters hoping to find a safe haven in the winter mountains.
After the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and taking her widowed father away, Adair Colley sets out on foot with her two young sisters hoping to find a safe haven in the winter mountains.
