Theirs was a covenant of love between to hostile worlds. When Elizabeth Dowland gave birth to his son, they were married according to Indian law. She had spurned an odious Puritan minister - and forsaken her own kind - to share her destiny with Wakwa Mamunnappu, prince of the Massachuseuck.

In the sureness of their love, they did not see the spiteful cruelty of the small minds bent on sundering their happiness. In their faith that the beautiful land could be shared by two peoples - both Indian and white - they did not see the treacherous forces gathering against them.

Caught in the tragic clash between their separate worlds, beset by vengeful jealousy and violent betrayal, Elizabeth and Wakwa would be torn from each other's arms, but never from each other's hearts.