J.D. Carr, author of Three Times To Freedom, and the first volume of The MacBean Chronicles, carries the reader to far off places in times both historical and imagined, weaving an epic tale of love and war, of history and nation building. Intrigue, joy, sorrow, death and redemption are well intertwined among three generations of the MacBeans, who struggle to accept the course of history stretching over four decades. William MacBean, on loan from Great Britain's intelligence service MI6, is assigned to the newly formed United States Office of Strategic Services upon the outbreak of World War II. There he falls in love with a beautiful American woman, marries and starts a family. Hardy MacBean, the youngest, is sent off to school in Scotland, where he is taken in by his grandfather and his uncle. It is here, at Dalcross Castle, that a young Hardy grows into a man during a tumultuous time and navigates a world few can imagine, as he learns that the course of freedom is not always what it appears to be.