France
Angoulême
Stone streets, vineyards, and the world of the early Simard family provide the setting for the beginning of the saga.
Landscapes hold memories. The series follows a family story across places and generations.
A river and a region
The Charente
The river and countryside form part of the landscape surrounding the story’s French beginnings.
Across the Atlantic
Québec & beyond
Later books follow the family story toward North America and the generations that take it forward.
The hero artwork is an imagined scene inspired by the region, not a documentary image of Angoulême.
A landscape for a long memory
Stone streets and cultivated land anchor the opening of the series. Later, the imagined family story follows the pull of a new life across water, carrying old names into unfamiliar places. Discovering those places is part of discovering how each generation understands the ones before it.
The settings provide a historical backdrop for fiction. This site does not present the story’s events or imagined conversations as documented facts.
