The forty-seventh Caleb Johnson adventure from Charles Ray! Caleb and Flora are spending a day in Bear Creek, visiting their friends, Harry Packard, owner of the town hardware store, and Lillian Davis, who owns the dry goods store. Flora and Lillian are chatting when a strange young woman, Clementine Jackson, shows up at the store asking for their help. She’s being pursued by a relentless Englishman who has been sent by her father to find and bring her home, but she doesn’t want to go. Flora and Caleb decide to help her and in so doing find themselves in league with an unlikely ally, author Mark Twain, who just happens to be stranded in Bear Creek because the wheels on the stagecoach he was traveling in broke. He has time on his hands and insists on helping. The matter becomes even more complicated, though, when they learn that Clementine’s sister, Esmerelda, is traveling with the Englishman and is even more determined than he is to take her home.