Marla Samson, a sixteen-year old ballet student, wins a scholarship for summer master classes at the Blamont Castle in France, where she immediately runs into a frightening entanglement of intrigue and controversy. Last year's dancers are puzzled by her resemblance to Cynthia, a student of the previous year, who was killed when a car she and her dancing partner, Yori, were traveling in plunged over a cliff at Devil's Curve. Some believe they were forced off the road. While lost in the castle, Marla ends up in Cynthia's room and is strangely drawn to her, as if she is being united with a lost...

UTAH TERRITORY, 1869 In Mormon country, where plural marriage is an accepted way of life, two sisters, Montana and Zelda Sudsway, are expected to follow suite and marry into polygamy. Jane, a 16-year old immigrant living with them, is hopelessly in love with their brother, Sydney, but he is betrothed to Helen, the beauty of Bear River Valley. Knowing that Sydney holds deed to the Sudsway pioneer home, Helen refuses to take vows until his sisters are married and out of the house. With the young men of their settlement either panning for gold in the North or setting rails for the Union Pacific,...