An introspective look at the aftermath of war. Cam Attling is the only villager to return from the war between the Uplanders and the Downlanders. But he cannot return ever to the old life he once knew. He has lost an arm, his betrothed has broken their engagement, the villagers look on him with suspicion for returning alive when their loved ones are dead. And he is haunted by memories of the war. He can only think of one way to survive - he leaves his village in search of the Upland lord who maimed him but spared his life and then saw that he was nursed back to health. No one is spared, and everyone changed by the cataclysm of war. And the people on both sides have to forge new lives in war's wake.
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