Book Synopsis
Swan Valley, Idaho. Late 1880s. A valley so raw and wide it barely has a name yet — where the Snake River runs cold and fast, the winters arrive without mercy, and the land gives nothing up without a fight.
Into this country comes the Callister family, wagon loaded, faith intact, staking a claim on ground that has already broken better men. Silas Callister drives a fence post into the mud and says this will do. His wife holds the family together by a strength that doesn’t announce itself. And Elias — twelve years old, watching his father with everything he has — begins the long education of becoming a man in a place that has no patience for boys.
The valley will test them all. Floods will take what they’ve planted. Winter will reach into the barn and the cabin alike. Sickness will settle in and refuse to leave. And through all of it the Callisters will do what the people who came before them did — put their heads down, tend what they’ve been given, and keep going.
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