Reg Saretsky

The woman stands alone at the stern of the north bound Brock. She has released her long red golden hair to the wind beneath her day hat, and it cascades around her shoulders. The stirring winds of Lake Michigan play against her new-style pantaloons, curling them, outlining against the shape of her legs. She watches the south coast fade into the intermittent fog banks that frame the passing of that autumn of 1850. An avatar of a new age, born before her time, she has taken risks by the name of justice and won, finding wisdom, confidence, and her man.
Meet Emma Reynolds-Chase. Born into the caldron state of frontier Missouri in the eighteen thirties, a witness to a violent civil war at eight. Orphaned at twelve, she becomes a natural crusader for justice.
Emma’s quest sweeps her into the movement to abolish slavery. She witnesses its darker sides, as rough men of conviction square off into conflict that threatens to tear America apart. In a world of shifting alliances, with a team who has conflicting alliances, divided loyalties, she finds her path.
Emma enters into the birth of a new America, where vast new mineral wealth, and a burgeoning industrial empire squares off against King Cotton. The greed for iron and gold sways and corrupts. A shadowy plot, by European powers, threatens to splinter a vulnerable, resource-rich Young America into client states.
Emma reconnects with the first love of her life, in a thrilling chase across Mid-West America. Emma Chase rescues her new husband. Emma enters into the birth of a new America, where vast new mineral wealth, and a burgeoning industrial empire squares off against King Cotton. The greed for iron and gold sways and corrupts. A shadowy plot, by European powers, threatens to splinter a vulnerable, resource-rich Young America into client states. from his cycle of vengeance, starting a new life, on new frontiers, with the man she loves.