Adam-Leap-The-Mountain ... a Navajo half-breed Indian born of the wilderness in the Western plains of America a man capable of killing ruthlessly to survive.
Deborah ... an English girl who has ventured into a savage land and been befriended by gentle Quakers in the Wild West. Then, horror strikes out of the lonely wilderness when the Quaker missionaries are massacred. Surviving the attack, Deborah finds her future can be guaranteed only as the woman of Adam-Leap-The-Mountain, who has already proclaimed his desire for her at their chance meeting beside a waterfall.
How can she reconcile her strict Victorian upbringing with life as an obedient Navajo squaw? A man and a woman divided by civilization but bound by passions older than time itself ...