Emmaline

She crosses an ocean for a brighter future. What she finds instead is a man who intends to own that future. Liverpool, 1856. Fourteen-year-old Emmaline Kendall has known nothing but poverty and sorrow until missionaries from a fledgling American religion arrive, promising blessings and abundance across the sea. Desperate for a better life, her family joins a company of Mormon emigrants on a trek to the Utah territory. The pioneer journey across the western frontier is brutal. Hunger, disease, and the ravages of nature claim hundreds of lives. Emmaline survives. But that survival comes at a cost. When she finally reaches the Mormon settlement in the Rocky Mountains, Emmaline learns the dark truth: She has been promised as a polygamous wife to a powerful man twice her age.