Having left her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, fifteen years ago under troubling circumstances, psychic Towner Whitney relunctantly returns after her eighty-five-year-old great-aunt Eva suddenly disappears.

Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant client. That Julian Trent receives only eight years seems too lenient. Then Trent is released in a matter of weeks. Mason's true passion is the steeplechase, and he competes as an amateur jockey. When a fellow rider is murdered, Mason's racing hobby becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell. Mason is reluctant...

The history of polygamy in the Mormon Church intertwines the story of Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, and a modern mystery in which a polygamous man has been found murdered and one of his wives is accused of the crime.

That fate could have dealt such a cruel hand to this golden couple seemed unfathomable. That they could endure it all with grace, courage, and humor defied belief.

When her husband is elected president of the United States, Alice Blackwell finds her new life as first lady increasingly tumultuous as she reflects on the privileges and difficulties of her position as her private beliefs conflict with her public responsibilities.