Web of Destiny — Muriel Elwood

Nancy Walker had America's spirit of daring and adventure--and all the beauty of its virgin shores. It was to her cousin Philippe, a handsome French soldier, that she owed her life--for he had saved her from a band of blood-crazed Mohawks, and carried her to safety at the home of his family in Montreal.
But she had barely recovered from the shock and horror when Marie de Chambault, an unscrupulous older woman madly in love with Philippe and jealous of Nancy's youth, set out to destroy her. The evil Comtesse used her influence among the corrupt, luxury-loving French aristocrats, and arranged to have the young girl locked away in a convent. But rather than be stripped of her freedom, Nancy begged Andre, another cousin, to take her back through the untrammeled wilderness to her childhood home in Albany.

Only a reckless young man, hopelessly in love, would have agreed to so rash and dangerous a plan. Alone, the two traveled for days through hostile country in the dead of a savage winter. They were cold, half-starved, and almost at the end of their endurance, when the Indians struck...