Tamera Alexander, critically acclaimed author of her Library Journal Top 5 Pick Rekindled, paints a vivid portrait of two solitary seekers whose paths converge. When VEronique Girard was five, her father left Paris for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a death-bed promise brings VEronique to 1870s Colorado to find her father, said to be mining nearby. But when she asks a local freighter to take her on his mining camp deliveries, surprising events unfold.