Northwest!

Jimmy Leyland has lost more than money at the card table, he's lost his direction. Sitting in a Canadian hotel after a ruinous night, he watches his old life drain away and wonders what comes next. Then he meets Stannard, a weathered rancher who speaks little but carries the authority of a man who has worked the hard land. And Margaret Jardine, who refuses to be anyone's ornament. As Jimmy is drawn into the rhythm of ranching and the vast Canadian wilderness, Bindloss asks what American frontiers have always asked: can a man remake himself, and what will he have to lose in the process? The prose is lean and purposeful, the landscape rendered with the kind of precise love that only comes from someone who has slept under those stars. This is adventure fiction with psychological weight, a story about the violence of becoming.