An emotionally traumatized American soldier, Mark Leroux, returned from the war in France to undertake a mission to the Canadian North to award a medal to the family of a fallen soldier who was a Cree Indian. Mark traveled to the small village, an old police cantonment on Lac Diamante, miles away from civilization. He accepted the mission, hoping to find direction and meaning to his life. He grew emotionally and physically stronger in the rugged environment of the hardy Crees, who needed the services of a forester to inventory a large tract of forestland that the Province of Quebec had donated to the tribe. The love and devotion of a beautiful Cree nurse paved the way for the fulfillment he was searching for. The vast wilderness was a fickle and deadly environment in which he lost everything he had dreamed of in a violent engagement in the Canadian North Woods. This is a story of love, sacrifice, and courage in the vast boreal forest of northern Canada the reader will long remember.