"A young couple, planning to marry, are torn apart when the Sioux uprising erupts and throws their lives into peril and turmoil. The young man, distraught when he believes his betrothed died in the battle of New Ulm, and believing he has nothing to live for, joins the union forces which are drawn into the front lines in the monumental Civil War battle of Gettysburg where he is wounded and taken prisoner by the rebel forces. When the young woman recovers...

"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and fight for the truth of their...