A saga of freedom, family, and everything it costs to hold onto both.

Rice and a Bowl of Boat

Freedom is the beginning of the story, not the end of it.

The war is over and the world has changed on paper. For one newly freed man, it means walking out with nothing — no land, no name that counts, no one waiting — and choosing, anyway, to build. A home. A trade. A family that will outlast him. Book One of the trilogy follows the first hard years of that choice, and the people who make it worth the cost.