Kathleen Haun's third novel once again offers insight into life in the 1800's, both on the Oregon Trail and along California's Eastern Sierra. Leaving war torn Missouri in 1863 on a wagon train headed west, the Carrington family experiences adventures and challenges that change their lives in ways they never could have imagined. Arriving in the West with secrets that can at any moment destroy their place in society and future happiness, they must face the reality that the choices they made in the past are forcing upon them an urgent reason to again be moving on.