After their wedding, Fancy and husband Bob Gentry settle in the new town of Seattle to begin their lives together. They begin to establish roots which will make them leaders in the community. When their first child is about a year old, they decide to take a trip back east to visit Bob's sisters and their families. They stop in San Francisco for a few days before boarding a train for the east, and while they are there, Fancy's old nemesis Priscilla Mayfair tries to kill all of them. Danni Potter's beloved pa-with whom she grew so close after the death of her ma-tells her they weren't her biological parents before his death. He encourages her to look for her family after his death, but when she leaves town a backwoods mountain man kidnaps her to be his and his brother's slave. She shoots both her captor and his brother and escapes, continuing the westward journey she started before her capture. When the captor recovers from his wound, he begins searching for her. Can she avoid the man stalking her? Can she find the family she remembers nothing about?