In the harsh New Mexico Territory, Hannah Wade, wife of a cavalry officer, was captured and enslaved by avenging Apaches. Only her steel-edged will to live kept her alive.

Finally rescued, she returned to a husband who shunned her touch, and to white women friends who found her stained and disgraced. But Hannah fought for her honor with the help of one man who valued her strength and spirit...one man who walked by her side in a land strewn with hate and injustice.