"Nick is going to be a handful, he has an adventurous mind.""The boy must now step up!"Nick Morrison was twelve years old when he was made to leave his home in Geelong to start a new life in Melbourne. The expectations thrust upon him after the death of his father, were not what he had in mind for his youth. As the eldest son of a newly widowed mother of six, Nick's desire for freedom, being answerable only to himself and his version of home guided every one of his decisions through his life, regardless of what road he travelled to get there.Eliza should have been a sober and dignified influence on a young and immature soldier. Yet after the death of her husband, her true love, nothing would stand in the way of her search for a life of excitement and luxury. This would have her blinded by what she assumed was the loyalty she was promised but turned out to be the chase she never imagined.A story of a man who married young, who served his country and who took a lifetime running to find home.Was a lifetime too long to finally find what he had been looking for?