As a flyer with the French Air Service during World War I, Louisiana Cajun Quentin Norvell has become a tough fighter pilot in the days before America's entry into the war.
En Cholula Mexico, la ciudad rodeada por los volcanes del Iztaccihuatl, el Popocatepetl y la Malinche, la ciudad que se niega a dejar atras su magia prehispanica, y que es sede de la piramide de Quetzalcoatl, la mas grande del mundo; en el ano 1914, cuando no solo estalla la gran guerra mundial, sino que Mexico es el corazon sangriento de la revolucion Mexicana, abanderada por Zapata y Carranza; y que habia sido contenida por el sangriento y escalofriante cuartelazo de Victoriano Huerta y el embajador Lane Wilson, en la decena tragica de 1913, que resulto con la muerte Madero y Pino Suarez.
Della Lambert, an ingenue on the brink of womanhood, is a member of an 1850 wagon train heading west with her widowed father when she was captured by an Indian raiding party.
When wildly independent Meg Piddington finds herself locked in her father's chocolate factory after hours with a most disarmingly attractive gentleman, she doesn't realize that she is his alibi—proof that Gareth Mandeville did not commit a dastardly crime.