Set before and during the events of the Last of the Mohicans, we meet Cora Munro, the daughter of a high-ranking British officer and a strong-minded, young woman. Together with her sister Alice, she is thrust in the midst of the French and Indian war in America where she has a chance encounter with a man who will change the course of her life. Cora/Nathaniel, Uncas/Alice

He’d led her through life with the same deft ease that he had when navigating the forest trails near their frontier home and yet when he departed life before her, he had left no marked trail behind him.