In 1860 nine-year-old Sean Sinclair was orphaned when step-relatives murdered his parents. Frightened and alone in New Orleans, the lad was befriended by a colorful gambler, who took the boy under his wing. His family inheritance puts the boy’s life in constant danger from a powerful voodoo priestess, his closest relative, but the young boy manages to evade the conniving woman for many years. At eighteen he travels West to see the country on his own in search of his missing mentor. In Abilene, Kansas he meets the young woman he would in time marry, after rescuing her, hundreds of miles away in Utah, from her abductor. This fast-moving tale, filled with intrigue, travels West as far as San Francisco, California