A time to be born, and a time to die, "Cassie heard the voice at her husband's funeral intone. A time to born she could understand. Even now the child, hers and Rob's, struggled within her body. Young, eager, optimistic, Rob and Cassie Quinn had joined the bands of immigrants who were land hungry and wooed by the promise of the "cheapest and also some of the best land in the world" were converging on the Northwest Territories. But a time to die Cassie couldn't comprehend. At least not until their children and grandchildren grew content in the fulfillment of the dreams she and Rob had for them!