After dedicating his 20's to raising his two brothers and keeping to himself on the ancestral homestead, Cord Alastair fears he might have lost something else: a chance at a family of his own. When a Draft is called, Cord must decide whether to hold the family together, or let his brothers stand on their own as each pursues his own convictions. From out-of-the-way Oklahoma farmland to foreign fields, the Alastair brothers deal with alienation from each other and their Southern culture as each learns to walk his own line between familial duty and social obligation, while ultimately defining themselves as individuals.

Samuel Duffy was born and raised on the prairie of Oklahoma. He currently lives in the midst of the pine and hardwood forests of the river-broken Kiamichi Mountains.