Set in the year 1873, Diana Marsh is determined to follow the man she is going to marry, Captain Stanley Miller, from Kentucky, where she lives, to Montana, where he is residing at Fort Ellis. However, along the way, she is captured by a Sioux War Chief, Silver Fox. At first she fears him, even though she is irresistibly pulled towards him, against her will. When she is forced to spend more time in his village, Dianna, now dubbed White Fawn, by him, starts to learn more about the illusive people who have taken her captive. She begins to accept their way of life, as her love and understanding, for Silver Fox grows. Being torn between her mystic War Chief, and her past love of Captain Stanley Miller, there is always the concern of what she will do, if Stanley ever comes to rescue her?