Born in 1829 to a mixed Scot and Cherokee family, when the Cherokee Nation had bright hopes for the future, John Francis Bell was a child when those hopes fell apart and the Nation prepared for the forced removal to their western lands. This fictional narrative, based on real people and events, includes the time of preparation, a daily journal of the Bell detachment on the Trail of Tears, and the years of conflict afterward when the Nation needed to work together to rebuild. How would John Francis Bell ever find a life of peace rooted in this land and all of its people?