Hope and Jost at last face the time of their death and the end of life in Spook Hollow. They asked to be together in the next life, but things rarely turn out for the best in spite of their carefully laid plans. The lesson they should have learned long ago, the lesson not to meddle with the time line was forgotten. Certainly they couldn't live in Spook Hollow; it would never do to have two identical Hope and Jost families on the same road They decided to head west, far west to the Michigan Territory. This new life was filled with extreme dangers, would they survive in a strange land with no other white people around them? Hope didn't realize that Jost was not exactly the same man as in the previous life; this one was immature in many ways. This would put all of them in a life threatening situation, one that only one of them would survive