The 1997 Shadows of Bridal Veil Series kicks off with Caitlyn Doherty, an 'ex-teammate' of Sincerity Trone, restocking the financial larder for a trip across the country in search of a witness who may have information to clear charges stemming from her husband's murder. She has raised sufficient funds by working as a model to hire a lawyer, so her future is somewhat less dismal. As could be expected for a Sean Mark Trail lady character, her travel by Harley will not be without incident, action or subterfuge. Neither will her return from the Vancouver Trade Show floors to her hideout in Alberta. Unsurprisingly, Caitlyn has so many aliases she needs a computer to stay abreast of them. She may need a few more should she ever actually get to Indian River to see her old sidekick, who is now in isolation and awaiting full sentencing for her own notorious misdeeds. In a foregleam of decades to come, Michael O'Shea has left the 1939-40 Phony-War 'front' in Holland to make haste to Canada and training in Canada's off-shoot of the newly formed RCAF. Since Herr Hitler gives the appearance of satisfaction with only the conquest of Poland, our red-headed giant of a lad arrives on the northern shores of the Wabaguin River in winter 1939 and bides his time until a call-up to active duty, by working as a teamster for M.J. O'Reilly Forest Products. At the age of fifteen, the lad has an attitude problem with the way the recent emigrants fleeing Hitler's adventures are treated by their 'betters' and decides to intervene. The timber magnates of the day may not see eye to eye with him but the boy remains undeterred. Alas, Michael has an attitude problem anyway. From out of the midst of nowhere comes the 'man' they call 'DeathWind', another teenager with a similar chippy outlook so the two join forces. The winter of '39-40 proves to be a busy one culminating with log jams, log booms, logger-heads and broken heads. However, these are the early days of Indian River History. They are as some would say 'colorful', even resourceful, but never peaceful, in the days before flooding the valley to create the 85-miles of Lake Wabaguin and some recent history. Beatrice Whitesides and Kathleen O'Reilly provide plentiful incite to those interim 'days' and the decades between with an uproarious 1979 visit by Michael, to drop in to 'cheer up' Rose Reilly, after her husband's death. It appears the 'times may be a-changing' but not the boy. 'Droppin in' is somewhat literal, after landing a twin-engine aircraft on their lawn and then setting up a camp in the ritziest neighborhood of Long Island, New York. It can only get 'way worse' from there ...