1704, Deerfield Massachusetts-the limits of the American frontier. Seeking a normal adolescence, it is the chance meeting of a strange young man that puts excitement into Lizzie Price's life leading to romance and a marriage not entirely embraced by her Puritan community. During one of New England's harshest winters, when she has just begun her wonderful new life, Lizzie and her community are violently wrenched into chaos when an army of Indians and their French military supporters burn the village and kill or capture half of its occupants. Led by leather lashes around their necks, the...