"Kentucky! Why, God, do we have to move to Kentucky?" The cry for freedom is spreading throughout the colonies calling many people to war, but not Sarah's family. The cry they hear leads them to a new, untamed wilderness called Kentucky. Kentucky doesn't feel much like freedom to Sarah, however. She can't understand why God didn't answer her prayers to stay in Virginia, but she vows she'll return some day.

Continues the adventures of now twelve-year-old Sarah, who has come from Kentucky to Williamsburg for schooling, only to become embroiiled with Revolutionary War spies.

Hearing that her mother and new baby sister are seriously ill, thirteen-year-old Sarah leaves her Williamsburg relatives and travels to rejoin her family in the dangerous Kentucky wilderness

Continues the adventures of Sarah who now is involved with the anti-slavery movement.

Sarah wants to open a school in Stoney Creek, but a series of strange occurances threaten to ruin her dream