SYNOPSIS

Depression Era Alberta is miserable and cruel, but WWI vet, Fergus Muir and his father are getting by. Plagued by guilt and memories of war, Fergus goes through life detached and cynical until he meets a young girl, Cat Perkins, who is the spitting image of his late wife.

Cat watches helplessly as her family disintegrates. Everyone she cares for is vanishing before her eyes, leaving her all alone. When Cat gets into trouble, Fergus is driven to explore the shadier side of their small town, uncover vagrancy, violence, and hypocrisy, to find the person responsible for the murder of a man he owes his very life to.

If Fergus travels the path to help Cat and himself, he must face his darkest nightmares head-on. Can loyalty overcome the corrupting power of guilt?

REVIEW

Oh, the things that people do when they feel desperate or stuck. Of course things don’t work out right when we make snap decisions..or do they?

The pop culture reference to Nancy Drew books had me doing a quick Google search to verify when the series was first published

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