Lucinda felt like she was jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but the frying pay scared her enough to take the chance. Avoiding a marriage to a known womanizer, she fled to the west to find an uncle she always heard was worse than an ogre.
To her great surprise and relief, her mother was correct, her twin brother Uncle Luke, was a kind and fair man that she loved immediately.
As he boarded a train to verify the change of heart of Lucinda’s father, a telegram came telling her it was all a ruse and she should run.
Lucinda disappeared with a wagon and team taking toward the known route of the wagon trains going farther west. What she found along the way would change her life.