Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and a saloonkeeper