The year is 1756, andtwenty-two-year-old Hamish MacCardle is scared. The journeyman gunsmith has been forced to become an indentured servant, leaving his Scottish home and going to the New World.Traveling to the most western city in the British American Colonies, Hamish's concerns of being treated as a slave are overwhelmed by his exposure to the horrors of the French-Indian War.Hamish fears he will not survive his seven-year contract.