In 1746. eight-year-old Colleen Stuart was more than ten-year-old Jonathan Rodes' playmate—she was his best friend. She could do anything a boy could do and best of all, she could play jokes on the adults without getting caught. Jonathan assumed they would always be together, but no sooner had his father told him the secret of the jewels, than his world collapsed. The King's men executed his father, his ailing mother died and he found himself painfully separated from Colleen. For years he remembered his promise to find her, but it seemed hopeless until one day an odd letter arrived.

The beautiful Hester Wyley was gone. By the time John Carson returned from fighting in the American Revolution, the woman he pledged to marry discovered her first husband was still alive and went back to South Carolina. So John set his heart on claiming a homestead west of the Mountains. It was in the Kentucky Territory that the delightful, Quaker Polly Lewis, captivated his heart and to her he also gave his pledge. But when he returned to Virginia, Hester was back, truly widowed this time and just as beautiful as he remembered. Which pledge would he ultimately have to break? (This book is the sequel to The Promise)