A sweeping epic of an enduring love that takes place over 40 years. It runs from the 1870’s through World War I. Historical fiction, romance, and tons of action/ adventure. It follows the trek of a child born unwanted to an unkind world where love is an illusion and seemingly out of reach. Ben’s journey to win his mother’s love and unite the family his birth destroyed ends with his enlistment in the Navy as the United States enters World War I. Sent off to live in an orphanage, Ben will fight, scratch, and claw to find his father and bring joy back to the only woman he truly loved, his mother. Can he win his mother’s love by saving the man who left at his birth, his father, and reuniting the family?