Summary: | Rupert's Land, 1755. Back home in England, he's regarded as a hero, one of the great explorers and adventurers of the age. But here in the New World, the legendary Charles Lord has taken a desk job governing a frontier trading post and is struggling as a single father to his half-Indian son. On the eve of his retirement, Charles longs for a return to past glories, and a second chance at his great unfulfilled quest: the discovery of the fabled Northwest Passage. But first he'll have to deal with the reappearances of both an old friend, come to warn him about danger in his path ... and an old enemy.
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