In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance and, ultimately, how the natural world has its own morality. Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and populated by European settlers, Indian shamans and mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan, seeks justice.