While being forced by the Blackcoats to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, Kitty Doe finds herself imprisoned in Elsewhere, an inescapable detention area for criminals.

"For newlyweds Jaine and Ter Bryant the long tiring journey across the prairie from their comfortable home in Natchez was a small price to pay for the new life they hoped to find in the promised land of California. But the dream became a nightmare when their wagon train was attacked by a Commanche war party"--