Brendan Matthews comes to the Cass lumber town of 1919

searching for something shrouded in his tortured memories of war. Against the backdrop of the taking of the Red Spruce timber and the churning of the Shay engines on Cass Mountain, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted, pursued by the imposing Sheriff Lance Harder.

He finds Lotti and hope, but draws her into his own mystery and dangers.

Can anyone stop their slide toward loss and sacrifice or have events in Cass been predetermined on the battlefield in France?