With tensions high on Canada's Acadian shore, seamstress Sylvie Galant encounters British army ranger William Blackburn, who warns of the approaching invasion---and then resigns his commission, unwilling to participate in people's forced removal. On a ramshackle ship to Virginia following her forced relocation, Sylvie's path crosses William's again. Can they untangle their shattered past to forge a future? 416 pages, softcover from Revell.