Danielle Steel transcends centuries and continents to take us from present-day Boston to the wilds of eighteenth century Dakota lands and the glittering palaces of Louis XVI... Brigitte Nicholson is thirty-eight years old and a passive academic stuck in a dead-end job and a desultory relationship. Her life becomes strangely linked to that of Wachiwi, the young daughter of a great Dakota Sioux chief in the late eighteenth century Stolen from her tribe by a Crow raiding party, Wachiwi went on to become a marquise in the court of Louis XVI.