On the wind-scoured Canadian prairie, where the town of Askatoon rises from the endless grass, a man called Shiel Crozier lives with a ghost. He's built a life in this new world, but his past remains firmly planted in the old one an Irish wife he hasn't seen in years, a marriage he walked away from, secrets that weigh heavier than the wide-open sky. When the vibrant Kitty Tynan, all youth and aspiration, stumbles upon a letter meant for the abandoned wife, she faces a choice: look away or dig into the mystery of the man who's captured her attention. Gilbert Parker's 1914 novel is a study in what we carry with us and what we hope to outrun. It's about the strange luck of love whether we find it or forfeit it and the debts that follow us across oceans. Volume One establishes a world where redemption might be possible, if only the past will stop reaching forward to claim what's owed.
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