The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping andrichly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures(Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Maryan Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwells past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakotadespite Farwells efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers,