When the plane went down, David Kirkham's head was a million miles away. The combination of sleeping pills and alcohol left him much more foggy than his usual obsessive and cynical self. However, he did seem to remember there was someone sitting next to him -- a young Mormon . The last thing he could recall was the panicked sound of her voice. Surrounded by jungle, the two survivors are forced to walk their battered bodies back to civilization...

James turned Eleanore to face him, and she crumbled in his arms, sobbing against his chest while the empty ache of losing her baby swirled into the heartbreak of having fear and secrecy shatter the perfect happiness she'd found in embracing the gospel.

Together with close friends and family members, Scotsman Ian MacBrier takes his wife Wren and troubled sister-in-law Bethia to America, but when tragedy strikes the Scotsman's new faith is sorely tested. His best hope lies in bringing his family safely to the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo.