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. Aboard a British convict
ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum
witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among
his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues
leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him
into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is
indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the
uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where
multiple warring factions are engaged in physical,
psychological, and spiritual battle. Exploring a frontier
world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness
populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and
mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his
near-extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice
cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those
involved are appeased.
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