Elizabeth was all alone. Her last brother had been shot and killed in a drunken fight, though she herself suspected it was murder, and all that stood between her and the violent young men her brother had counted as friends were her wits and the fact that they had just buried him. She must get away.

So Elizabeth packed what was necessary, food and her mother's precious papers, slung her brothers pistols about her hips, took her brother's horse, and slipped away that night, stopping only to whisper a prayer over her dead brother's grave.

Thus an incredible journey begins. Fifteen year old Elizabeth rides from Montana to Pennsylvania, to her mother's people whom she had never met, never even heard of until she'd read her mother's papers. Along the way, she met a young man from the East who had been separated from his hunting party. He filled her heart with a desire to go to school and learn of the many things he'd talked about that she had no knowledge of. But all too soon he'd had to return to the East, and she to her own journey.

It was certain her determination and inner strength would carry her there, but would the perils of the journey overcome her, alone and ignorant as she was? Would she be able to find her family and would they accept her and provide for her? Would the culture and strange ways of the East crush her spirit? And would she ever meet that young man again? But most important of all, would she ever find God? The God of the prayer that her mother had taught her, the God shared at the Christian Endeavor meeting she'd attended soon after her flight from home, the God who had hidden her from the evil men who'd chased her. Yes, most of all, she desired to find God.