The life of a young and successful man is turned upside down in 1970 when he becomes implicated in a suspicious death. A wanted suspect, the man escapes to the Appalachian Trail, a track he knows well, where he spends decades among the high ridges and valleys of the Appalachians as an anonymous exile until fate leads him to the valley of the Tuscarora, where he reconnects with two women who loved him when he was a teenager: one is running for the Governorship of Pennsylvania and the other has been a decades-long dream that has accompanied him as he trekked the Trail. FOR MATURE READERS