This is the story of a woman's search to find her children and the unlikely alliance she forms with their kidnapper as they make an epic journey across the Great Plains of Kansas and Colorado. The longer they dwell in each other's company, the closer they become, even though she struggles to understand the enigmatic Indian who not only throws her into ice cold rivers just for the hell of it, but likes to add insult to injury by spanking her butt afterward. Then by complete contrast, he tenderly, cares for her and her daughter as they journey west facing danger at every turn. Although violent and harrowing, this is also a love story set in 1875 when there was much resentment between Indian and white settlers resulting in more than one massacre of innocent women and children of various tribes. This is a work of fiction but history tells us that such atrocities happened. One notable example was Custer's raid on peaceful Cheyenne people in Colorado, resulting in the deaths of numerous women and children.