In the first of this one-volume trilogy, Off Across the Plains, after surviving the massacre of her family, Abby Tate is rescued from slavery by Ethan Wood, a young outlaw on the run from having avenged his father's unjust execution. Ethan accompanies Abby on her search for her younger sister, Rene. The search leads them from the high Rockies of Colorado to a thriving border town in Sonora. Marshal A.J. Ledbetter defers his arrest of Ethan...