Vaughn Collin Bumbles witlessly through sexual baptism in snow caves on the Manitoba prarie of the 30s, through the violence and shody heroism of a hockey career on the unlikely ice of Victoria and Southern France. Not unitl middle age does Vaughn come of age, only to suffer the excesses of the sixties and be snubbed in the fern bars of the seventies. Scarred for life, it is not until Vaughn finds his way to Bella Combe, and reunites with the one love he has ever had, that his empty heart ripens and his life finds purpose. -- Taken from back of book.