Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

Bestselling author Robert Keller suffers memory loss following a traumatic accident, awakening in an unfamiliar house with no recollection of his past. As fragmented memories begin to surface, he is compelled to piece them together.