The soil demands blood. Memory offers no mercy.

1689: what was meant to be the dawn of a dream in the New World becomes the most brutal of nightmares.

When Mohawk warriors strike in the dead of night, the Martiny family is engulfed by senseless violence. Carlo "Charles" Martini, an Italian builder who sought a future in New France, fights with every fibre of his being to protect his own, but fate is cruel: three of his children are snatched away, destined to grow up as strangers within the enemy tribe. While Charles struggles to rebuild his life within the walls of Québec, his brother Antoine refuses to surrender. In the northern wilderness, a blood bond forged with Kwame, a man escaped from the shackles of slavery, ignites an ambition that stretches far beyond the frontier, reaching towards the gold and the shadows of Africa.

Blood and Soil is the gripping second volume of the epic adventure saga A Mari Usque Ad Mare. A forty-year odyssey of rebirth and betrayal, sweeping from the savage American frontier to the first voyages towards the Dark Continent, following the iron will of a family that refuses to be broken.

In a world ruled by chaos, the only bond that endures is the one etched in the scars of the past.