内容简介：
Set in Alabama a few years after the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ruth Morrow has just discovered that she is adopted. She had been taken from her parents when she was a small child, and her parents and older sister could still be alive. Angry at her adopted parents, Ruth runs away to try to find her real family. The last her adopted father had heard, Ruthas real family was in Kansas. With the help of a cowboy traveling the same road, Ruth finds her sister, Naomi. Together, they continue on to search for their parents. The cowboy continues to ride with them and gets them out of trouble more than once. Once they reach Kansas, things donat go as planned. The girls stay with two widowed sisters who treat them as their own daughters. They even help the girls look for their parents. The cowboy and his brother, who own a cattle ranch nearby, are also helpingabut with no luck. It seems as if the girls will have to move on if they ever want to find their parents. But they have spent a lot of time in Kansas and survived a lotastorms, gamblers, drunks. Will Ruth and Naomi have the heart to leave?