Follow sixteen-year-old Ellis Cady as she continues her
journey
in this
sequel to award-winning
Ellis River!
The fine line between friends and enemies blurs as Ellis Cady sets out to reach the new frontier of
post-Civil War America
.
After waiting out winter at the Cady ranch in southern
Missouri,
hope blooms in the
Spring of 1866
. Ellis receives news of a mysterious man arriving in
St. Louis
. Will she find her
father
alive and well, or finally put his memory to rest?
Grasping at the illusive promise of her father's whereabouts, Ellis is distracted by the intrepid
trick rider,
Jimmie, a woman who rides with Levi Jack's
Wild West Exhibition
. Then, talk of reinstating a messenger service akin to the
Pony Express
rekindles a faded dream. Since the
war's
devastation, important letters and messages still need to get through a
western
landscape governed by
Indians
and
outlaws
. When an untimely
epidemic
threatens, Ellis finds herself back in the saddle, a
young woman
and her
horse
on a perilous
trail