On a sunny morning on the Pennsylvania frontier in 1778, a mother sits down to breakfast with her children. Within an hour, the family is torn asunder. While her husband rides for help, Indians seize her and their sons. Only her teenage daughter escapes. Alone in the world, young Jane struggles to make her way, while her father searches frantically for her. Soon even greater tragedy erupts. Set against the turmoil of our country's founding, this is a novel about relationships and the struggle of a divided family to reunite against great odds. Book club discussion questions included.