Ripped from her mother's bosom and shipped to England as an exhibit for Sir Walter Raleigh, Nadie, a Native American Indian, is thrust into the boiling pot of brutish tudor life. Her only protector is tom, a young blacksmith who falls in love with her. too soon, Nadie is forced back to her exotic lands, to help the English colonize her people. But the New World holds uncharted danger - can Nadie protect tom in her world?