Fourteen-year-old Carrie Oyler craves adventure. Although her remote desert home is full of beauty and mystery, life in their sleepy Mormon hamlet leaves much to be desired for a strong dreamer like her. Carrie often wonders what her future will hold. Will she become a healer like her mother? Will she be allowed to go on a mission and travel the world? Anything would be better than becoming a plural wife, even though it would insure her eternal salvation. When she unexpectedly falls in love with a boy from a Paiute tribe, and then is called upon to aid in his rescue, Carrie becomes trapped with him in an enchanted canyon known as The Maze. The key to their freedom comes from an unlikely source in Renda, who is traveling cross country in search of her own identity-but it may prove to take a combination of the past, the future, and a mother's fierce love to unlock the magic that holds them there . . . in all their yesterdays.