Emmaline

She crosses an ocean for a brighter future. What she finds instead is a man who intends to own that future.

Liverpool, 1856. Fourteen-year-old Emmaline Kendall has known nothing but poverty and sorrow until missionaries from a fledgling American religion arrive, promising blessings and abundance across the sea. Desperate for a better life, her family joins a company of Mormon emigrants on a trek to the Utah territory.

The pioneer journey across the western frontier is brutal. Hunger, disease,...