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In a book full of historic detail, acclaimed writer Eliot Pattison reconsiders the beginning of America and examines how disenfranchised folks of any age and location battle to find justice, how inconsistent civilizations could be reconciled through empathy and patience, and eventually how the natural world has its morality.Aboard a British convict ship bound for the Brand New World, character Duncan McCallum witnesses a number of murders and apparent suicides among his other Scottish criminals. A trail of clues leads Duncan into the Brand New World and fundamentally thrusts him into the soft maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the English Master Ramsey, whose property within the unknown Ny woods is just a Center of Night where numerous warring groups are engaged in physical, mental, and religious battle.Exploring a frontier planet engulfed at risk and defying death in a wilderness filled by European residents, Indian shamans, and mystical scalping events, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-vanished Scottish family, discovers that occasionally justice can't be attained until the ethnicities and tones of these included are appeased.