A Lost Lady is a poignant portrait of a woman caught between erasboth a symbol of fading frontier ideals and a quiet rebel against the constraints of her time.

To the citizens of Sweet Water, a dwindling railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester embodies grace, refinement, and a vanishing way of life. To her ailing husband, she is a cherished prize; to young Niel Herbert, who idolizes her first from afar and later becomes her confidant, she is a figure of both luminous beauty and haunting contradiction. As Niel matures, he witnesses the unraveling of the idealized image he once helddiscovering in Mrs. Forrester a complex woman whose strength and fragility reflect the changing American landscape itself.