Missouri Territory, 1846: Driven by angry mobs, thousands of Latter-day Saints flee their homes in the eastern United States. They gather west of the Missouri River to wait out the winter and hope they survive hunger and disease. A church leader unveils a shocking, divine revelation to teenage sisters Aveline and Frances Bowmore: they must marry married men. The specter of polygamy promises heaven. Aveline and Frances feel compelled to obey. They become plural wives. The loss of each other's support while faced with angry sister-wives and husbands they'd just met stretches their willpower to...

Bones have been discovered in the art studio's kiln at Wyoming's Colter State College. Campus police dismiss the discovery as a prank but Lariat reporter Jennifer Roby isn't convinced. Nudged by gut instinct, guided by the experienced voices of her father and grandfather, haunted by memories of her mother, and hampered by just about everyone on campus, she continues to investigate the tasteless joke for the college newspaper. Disappearing students and freak accidents add to her determination to prove that there is more to the story-then the local coroner confirms Jenn's suspicions. An...

Placer City, Wyoming, 1933 - After her father's abandonment and her mother's death, Em Olson struggles to operate her beloved family hotel in a busted mining town. A new lodger, a handsome geologist searching for gold, brightens her lonely life. Her troubles resurge when he makes discoveries of murder and swindles embroiling the family hotel and her father's gold mine. Stressed to the breaking point, she must examine her past to find her father's killer and decide her future while the man she has grown to love prepares to depart on his next assignment.