Caylen's Quest

CAYLEN'S QUEST

Robert B. Marchand


CAYLEN'S QUEST Price $17.95 Robert B. Marchand ISBNs:0981907563 978-0981907567		The devastation that befell some families during and after the Great War of 1914 called into play a method used in the 1800's by frontier women. Finding a husband through the mail order system was a commonly used method of single impoverished or widowed mothers whose husbands had made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. These women, in desperation, agreed at times to wed virtual strangers. Such a woman was the widowed Lora Helms. Lora and her young son Caylen, with their need for security and seeking a father figure for Caylen, are lured by an eccentric gold prospector to the unfamiliar wilderness of the Northern Canadian Rockies. Young Caylen Helms and his mother Lora soon find themselves victims of a greedy, sadistic recluse. Refusing to just give in to this evil man, Caylen is forced to become a man at an early age. In a seemingly hopeless situation, help finally arrives from an unusual source. Caylen begins to have dreams about an old Indian man and a huge black wolf. Are these dreams merely dreams? Caylen and his mother are certain such is the case until one morning he finds at the cabin's door a small black wolf cub that is a miniature replica of the wolf of his dreams. Can the visions in his dreams and the promises of the old Indian lead Caylen to success in his quest for riches, justice and the love of a beautiful Indian maiden?

About The Author

Bob was born in Toronto Canada in 1941 while his father was fighting the war. The first four years of Bob's life were spent in the small Northern Ontario gold mining town of Kirkland Lake. After the war, the family purchased a old farm about sixteen miles South of Kirkland Lake where Bob's father attempted to glean a living from the heavily forested lands of his old farm.

Bob managed to escape parental abuse when, at nine years of age, he was permitted to take out and use a little single-shot twenty-two rifle. That little rifle gave him the means and a reason to roam about, alone through the forests of Northern Ontario. With that little rifle, a fishing rod, wire snares and a few traps, Bob was able to provide much needed wild game and fish to feed the growing family. Told by his parents to get a job at age thirteen, Bob worked on road construction, at sawmills and at the guiding of black bear and moose hunters. Leaving the difficult family environment, Bob eventually made a career in the Canadian Armed Forces. Following that twenty year career, he began a second fifteen year career as a Municipal Public Works Director before beginning his third career as a building manager and a writer of novels in British Columbia, Canada .

Bob has one other published book to his credit. Mindoka Memories is the true story of his traumatic young life on that remote farm in Northern Ontario.