A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.

In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.

At the turn of the century lumber was a booming industry in a savage land. Upon the unexpected death of his father, Daniel Rimsdale returns home to try to salvage the floundering family lumber business, find out who killed his father