After years of disappointment and disillusionment, Margie is now determined to make it on her own, focusing on the happiness of her two grown daughters-her only offspring still living at home. With her daughter Cadence soon leaving for college Margie decides to continue her own education, having in mind a possible literary career. Meanwhile, she becomes acquainted with six women who quickly become her best friends, and she envisions the remainder of her life as a single woman surrounded and supported by these inimitable cohorts. But projected life plans seldom come to fruition, and unforeseen...

Margaret Buckwalter, as a young woman, is one of the brave stalwarts who, because of religious convictions, is forced from her home, then crosses the country in a wagon to help settle the Salt Lake Valley. As a child she, her mother, and five younger siblings, with not much more than the meager clothes on their backs, leave their home in Pennsylvania to join others of their faith in Nauvoo, Illinois. They enjoy a short respite there until ignorant mobs drive them out. At this time she bids farewell to her best friend and soul sister, with the hope of being reunited at some future time, but...