Exciting and captivating, Shane Christen's latest piece picks up where "Men of Flesh and Blood" leaves off. A skilled story teller, Christen masterfully weaves together the threads of the tales of Johan Steele and friends as they attempt to integrate into their post-war lives in Minnesota. Though the war is over, conflict with their neighbors and within themselves remains. Lives are lost. New friendships are forged. Challenges arise. And secrets are revealed. Christen not only tells an exciting story, but he has taken great pains the world his characters inhabit is historically accurate.