"Guet-apens," said Mary, "I feel ambushed!"A young woman in trouble attempts to flee the guilt of her sin by enticing her sister to also be promiscuous and then connives to trap a soldier to claim fatherhood for the unborn child, naming her lover as the father would serve him a harsh punishment by the statutes of the fort.A twist of fate for the young woman will secure her goal to hide the embarrassment of her sin. Her fate lay in the hands of a half-breed Indian, an unexpected prisoner at the fort.