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Anna is
accompanying a group of settlers traveling from Texas, across the Red River, to
get much needed supplies from Fort Arbuckle in Oklahoma.
On their return
home, they are ambushed by a band of Chickasaw Indians, and the settlers are
all killed, with the exception of Anna, who is seen as less of a threat because
of her dark hair. This is not the only
reason she is spared, however. She
quickly finds favor with one of the young braves, Ohiteka, especially when she
explains that she can be of value to the tribe using the food and supplies the
settlers had gotten from the Fort as a bargaining tool.
Although Ohiteka
is taken with the young woman, it is not until he makes his spirit journey that
he is convinced she has been sent to him by the Great One above.
Anna, known as
Chenoa among the Chickasaw people, learns of Ohiteka's desire for her, however,
she and Ohiteka’s sister, Aponi, are captured by several young Choctaw
warriors; enemies of Ohiteka’s tribe.
Ohiteka forms a
plan to rescue the woman he loves and his sister, but soon learns that one of
the men helping him has a purpose of his own.
Hurritt is the one who saves Chenoa, making her his property—his slave. He secretly awaits the death of his wife, so
he can make Chenoa his woman.
Ohiteka finds a
way to try and win back Chenoa by challenging Hurritt to fight him for
her. The bloody fight ends with
Hurritt’s defeat and Ohiteka is permitted to take Chenoa as his wife.
As you will see,
life is not always easy for Ohiteka and Chenoa, but the love you feel for them
is only magnified when they discover they are expecting their first child. Their happiness, however, is shadowed with
the hunt, for Ohiteka must leave with the hunters to bring meat back to the
village for his people.
The hunt brings
more changes to their lives, changes that make Chenoa's life complete when
Ohiteka saves her mother and two younger sisters, delivering them to the
village, sparing them the same fate that befell the settlers when the story
first unfolded.
