A novel . a love affair between a struggling writer and a beautiful and successful womanof the corporate world. Based on a true life story, the work is set in the rugged country of America's Pacific Northwest. It begins with the unhappiness of an emotionally devastating divorce and the near dispair of the writer's endless attempts to publish his work. And ends with writing success, love and, in an old native American encampment on the banks of a river, a mystery.