"She could use sanctuary...somewhere to rest." Morgan's characters are real women; fallible, vulnerable people who refuse to call themselves 'victim'. Letitia LeGrau is born aboard a small ship while her parents are on their way to the upper Columbia River region to Christianize the Indians. As the years pass, her parents fall deeper and deeper into the morass some call 'prairie sickness' and Lettie is burdened with more and more responsibilities. Moise Stark is a scrawny kid of twelve when his father kills his Native American mother and her unborn child and then sells Moise's little sister...