Samantha Hanover has survived a brutal winter on the North Dakota Plain. Now, with spring in the air, she hopes to put her past behind her—until she meets Rob Reiker, a cowboy surgeon, who somehow triggers a connection between Samantha and Teal-Eye, a woman of times long past.
Teal-Eye, is in trouble. She is far from her home and her people, forever the outsider among the High Mountain Clan, forever lonely. Now, her one chance at happiness, marrying the man she calls Bear, is about to be taken from her, unless she can help Samantha escape from those who would kill her.
Together, Samantha and Teal-Eye, though separated by the immensity of time, must unravel a problem as old as humanity, one of childhood and maturity, one involving a chain of frightened woman reaching from the far distant past into our present.