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When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the kings mercy exile to the colony of North Carolina hes indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith. Against his will Alex is drawn into the struggles of Careys slaves and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. A mistress with a servants heart, Joanna is expected to wed her fathers overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to the new blacksmith.As their unlikely relationship deepens, successive tragedies strike the Careys. When blame falls unfairly upon Alex, he flees to the distant mountains where he encounters Reverend Pauling, itinerate preacher and friend of the Careys, now a prisoner of the Cherokees. Haunted by his abandoning of Joanna, Alex tries to settle into life with the Cherokees, until circumstances thwart yet another attempt to forge his freedom and hes faced with the choice thats long hounded him: continue down his rebellious path or embrace the faith of a man like Pauling, whose freedom in Christ no man can steal.