20 year old Becky Barrett has fled New York after murdering her heavy handed father, and finds herself at Choteau's Trading Post on the Kansas River. She meets mountain man Josh Walker, who takes her to the west where she meets Jake Stanton, Dan McNeil, Cole Randall, Randall's nemesis Josiah Cannon, Right Hand Johnson, "Fat" McHugh, and a few others you may recognize from my other mountain man novels. A martial arts expert and a crack shot, Becky sets out to make a life for herself in the Rockies, with the goal of someday owning her own trading post. Nothing can stand in her way; not blizzards, Indian raiding parties, crooked post owners, or her own haunted conscience.