Mary Glickman’s sweeping historical novel is the story of a trio of outsiders who will each be profoundly affected by the Indian Removal Act. There is Abrahan, a young Jewish immigrant who must live in indentured servitude to his uncle until his debts have been fulfilled. In his peddler’s travels, Abe falls madly for Dark Water, the daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, now in exile. Then there’s Dark Water’s estranged lover Jacob, a black slave, accused of the murder of a white man.

Linked by love and friendship, Abe, Dark Water and Jacob face the horrors of President Jackson’s Indian Removal Act as the tribes of the South make the grueling journey across the Mississippi River and into Oklahoma.