Two destinies. Two women. One is the beautiful daughter of an Indian leader, who became the brilliant French Marquise de Margerac and found herself drawn into the whirlpool of the stormy, adventurous and deadly era of the French Revolution... The second is her distant descendant, the American anthropologist Bridget Nicholson. Her career collapsed overnight, and her archaeologist fiancé broke off the relationship, and now, while searching for material for the biography of the Marquise on her travels, Bridget is looking for inspiration in her life to reassemble her own life from the fragments... Two stories, separated by centuries, but intertwined in a magnificent novel about love and loss, courage and fearlessness!