Amálie looked up at me with tears welling up in her big, blue eyes. "Papa, please don't go," she cried as I picked up my bag. Marta watched from the kitchen as I tried to explain to our 6 year old that I was going away for a little while but would return home soon. "I'll tell you what swonechko," I said crouching down so we were eye to eye, "when I come back, I will bring you a surprise." She shyly looked at the ground trying, and failing, to make her smile less noticeable. "Ok papa." she answered.

In this historical fiction you get to experience the Oregon trail a 13 year old girl who's life is about to change. Elizabeth falls in love, but being on the Oregon trail, will her love live? Will he die? Will they make it to the Oregon Country? You will have to read to find out!