Rather than face a forced wedding to the father of her unborn baby, Elizabeth Lee joins her friends Jessie and Emma for a journey across treacherous land to a new life in the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma in 1889. They never imagined the land would open with a massive horse race of fifty thousand people fighting for their own section of two million acres. Along the way, everything she ever knew about life, love, and God is questioned. When she meets Jared, she wonders, can she ever love again? Past and future intertwine as Elizabeth faces the unknown land, love, and life forcing their way into her livelihood upon the new land called Oklahoma.