Far Cry

In 1866 two young women are captured in the Wyoming Territory by a band of Lakota. They travel with the Indians for a year. Although from very different backgrounds, the two cling to one another and forge a strong friendship. This is tested when Sarah, the story's narrator, embraces life with the Indians and falls in love with the young chief of the clan, while Elizabeth holds to her faith that she'll be released from her 'heathen' captors and returned to her husband and young sons. Gen. Armstrong Custer brokers a hostage exchange that turns violent and the two women have very different experiences of their return to white culture. Against these odds, the friendship survives and becomes richer. It is a story of many kinds of love set against the persistent cruelty of the Indian Wars in the west, and the undiminished racial hatred in the south at the end of the Civil War. Sarah must decide how to live honourably in an America that is evolving through violence.