It is just after the turn of the century, late autumn in Northern Wisconsin and another lumbering season is about to begin. Soon the camps will be filled with men to do the winter harvest, while their families try to continue the social affairs of the little village. Into this mix comes a mysterious stranger, unfamiliar with life in the Wisconsin wilderness. Before long he is enmeshed in the lives of this hardy class of people and faced with weighty decisions about love and loyalty. If he can survive his days in a lumber camp and sort out the feelings in his heart, he may just have a chance...

In Volume I of this series, the reader was introduced to the inhabitants of Pratt, Wisconsin, a small lumber town in the north along the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad line. Among the residents were the Walden family and the Johnson family, whose stories continue in this tome. As Volume II takes up the tale, it is 1918 and Pratt is nearing the end of the timber harvest in the area; no longer the stately white pine falling to the axe or the profane oaths and clamor of the lumberjacks at arduous labor. The Great War with Germany has taken a grim harvest as well, in the lives...