August, 1861After her mother's death, Alannah Fagan is left in the care of a brutal stepfather. When he demands that she marry his youngest son, her only hope is to escape. Together with Conn Fagan, her younger brother, she flees their westbound wagon train with no plan other than to survive.Stewart McCann left northern Virginia behind to take the stationmaster job at the Pony Express's Horseshoe Station in Wyoming territory at the start of the Civil...