This is a truly emotional and spellbinding story of a fiercely independent Frenchwoman who is first widowed, and then pregnant, then jilted by the man she corresponded with to become his mail order bride. After the long journey from Europe to the US, she decides to undertake an even longer and far more hazardous one, when she joins a wagon train and a family of Latter Day Saints on the way to Salt Lake city. After a few days they begin calling her Lioness, and she soon proves that she can live up to the name.