This Shining Splendor — Louisa Bronte

A vision of the Promised Land called them from Europe's shores... Peddlers and outcasts, they sought freedom under America's majestic, sweeping skies-and ecstasy in each other's arms.

JARED: He dared to flee the Old World for Philadelphia, and to exchange a peddler's wagon for a Midas's fortune in the copper-laden mines of Colorado.

MIRIAM: The loving, faithful wife. She could forgive Jared anything... but betrayal in another woman's arms.

VASHTI: Jared's other woman. Passionate, proud, sensuous, she found a love beyond her wildest dreams and a fortune on the turbulently savage western frontier...