The priceless ruby necklace secretly given to fifteen-year-old Ophelia Oatman by her dying mother isn t easily given away nor is her virginity. But Ophelia must choose between them. The necklace becomes both Ophelia s ticket to freedom and shackles of shame. Fate, family legacy, hair color, the shape of her skull, sex, survival, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the tension between Mormons and Gentiles in the Utah Territory converge to shape her destiny.
Ophelia s War chronicles the battles for love and survival fought by a young frontier girl in the nineteenth century:...