Serenia grew up a tomboy in the 1800s, learning many life lessons as she worked beside both her mother and father. These lessons prove essential to her survival as she protects her hometown from bank robbers, stands up to Indians, and survives river rapids with strength and courage rare for a young woman of her time. Her independence does not deter her from finding love. And despite the man?s troubled past with her father, they marry, and she follows...