A Three-time Christy Award-winning AuthorForsaking security and the marriage her stepfather forced upon her, Tamsen Littlejohn enlists frontiersman Jesse Bird to guide her to the Watauga settlement in North Carolina. As they face hardships that test the limits of Tamsen''s faith and endurance, her wealthy suitor and stepfather follow, convinced she''s been kidnapped. With trouble in pursuit, thrust into a conflict among settlers, Tamsen must adapt to a life for which she was never prepared.