Eighteenyearold Carrie Welton is restless unhappy and illsuited to the conventions of nineteenthcentury New England Using her charm and a cunning scheme she escapes the shadow of a cruel father and wanders into a thrilling series of highwire adventures Her travels take her all over the country putting her in the path of Bohemian painters poets singers social crusaders opium eaters violent gang members and a group of female mountain climbersBut Carries demons return to haunt her bringing her to the edge of sanity and leading to a fateful expedition onto Longs Peak in Colorado Thats not the end though Carrie being Carrie sends an astonishing letter back from the grave and thus engineers her final escapeforever into your heart