The novel takes place at the end of the 18th century. Roxanne Sherwood's five-year-old brother dies of fever. In England there is a bloody war and a typhus epidemic is raging. Roxana's parents, worried about the fate of their daughter, send her to a relative. Roxanne is accompanied by her cousin Gideon Sherwood. In the forest, young people lose their way and are captured by the Indians. The situation of the golden-haired beauty is hopeless, and only the courageous hunter Keleb Coleman knows how to rescue Roxanne from captivity.