"Why, you a gal, ain't ya?" With these few words, Worthy, a captured runaway African slave, begins an odyssey with Mary Rivers, a beautiful Chickasaw woman. There was no way the bounty hunter who tied the beaten and bloody body of Worthy to the abused and violated body of Mary could know that he was also forging the first link of the chain binding their hearts and souls together. Against the majestic backdrop of the mountains and plains of the American...