Riders of the Silences2013

Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Although a novice short of his vows, he is strong in faith and learning, able to ride any horse, to run a hundred miles a day behind a dog team, to fight skillfully and to shoot unerringly. Yet he remains gentle and unaffected, his thoughts as clear as spring water. Into this life, a thunderbolt descends in the form of a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far from all he has ever known. When he meets Jacqueline Boone, their lives are changed forever. He could not forsee the depths of evil and...