Kidnapped by Indians when she was little more than a girl, Katherine Coltrane became the wife of a warrior Rescued by bluecoats years later, she was forced to leave her infant daughter behind She became a woman alone in a violent world of men Surviving by her iron will and silken flesh, she carved out a vast cattle kingdom and defended it in range wars that swept Wyoming territory like wildfire She found men who matched her strength and passion, men who loved her or feared her, but could never tame her pride and independence Yet Kate never stopped the search for her child - in a quest that had to bridge the gap between Indians and whites on a frontier split by savage struggle