Some people have greatness thrust upon them... By early November, 1918, both nature and man have given the planet its first taste of how the world may one day end. On one front, the Spanish Flu pandemic is still stacking bodies that adds up to millions…. while on another, the first conflict ever to be called a “world” war staggers to its conclusion, having virtually wiped out a generation of Europe’s young men.

It is at this time that widower Charles Marden, a mild country judge and grower of apples receives word that his son has been declared “killed/missing” in battle, and bestirs himself to journey from his pastoral home on his beloved Vancouver Island, across the U-boat-infected Atlantic, to the blood-drenched killing fields of Belgium.

What he will find at the end of his journey will be the stuff of tragedy….and triumph.