内容简介：
When Georgiana and her maid, Kitty, make the long sea journey from their native East Yorkshire to America, they are seeking a new life of freedom and emancipation, but in New York, Georgiana encounters an imposter posing as Edward Newmarch, her cousin's husband. Meanwhile the real Edward, having escaped his disastrous marriage in England, is now running from a bigamous union with the daughter of a plantation owner. As he flees, and as Georgiana and Kitty journey to the land of the Iroquois, the dangers and passions of this new country and its people threaten to overwhelm them all.