In 1905 an energetic man with grand plans arrives in Nova Scotia. He has a wonderful way with words, and entrancing stories.

But it turns out there is more than one story to him, and not all his plans are grand. He's the sort of man that, after you shake his hand, you had better count your fingers.

Laura Churchill Duke, bestselling author of Two Crows Sorrow, spins another carefully-researched tale of deception and murder, and the pursuit of justice, in Nova Scotia.