The antique ivory locket was the key!  Exquisite and enchanting, it drew Aimee like a magnet.  Though the locket cost every spare penny she had, it was money well spent – or so she thought!   Catapulted by the locket to the year 1847, Aimee finds herself alone in St. Louis, Missouri, the jumping off site for the Oregon Trail.  The much touted slogan “Go West Young Man” takes on new meaning.  Seattle, her home in the present, was a distant dream, and unless she found a suitable male willing to wed, Aimee would be left behind when the emigrant train left for the Oregon Territory.  Penniless and without recourse, Aimee’s choices were few. 

 

Jake Marshall, scout for the Markham Party, was the perfect, if unwilling, choice.  Undaunted by his initial rudeness, Aimee entices him to the alter with the promise of her diamond earrings as payment, thereby securing her passage on the wagon train, and embarking on a chain of events that would ultimately end in the far reaches of the great American West.