In a breathtaking tale that captures the turbulence of an era and the stormy emotions, jealousy, lust, hate of it characters, we follow Odette Morel as she flees the brutal excesses of the French Revolution, endures the hardships of an ocean voyage to America and faces unthinkable dangers in the frontier wilderness. In Odette’s story we meet the men who want to own her, dominate her, violate her and who brutally try to break her fiery spirit. And we meet the man who loves her enough to risk everything, even his life, for her.