Saskatchewan, 1895. Spencer Pearse stands outside the cabin he built for a bride he hopes is on the way—or is he still waiting for Val, the boyhood friend who once shared grand dreams of raising horses far from the gaze of their fathers?  

On the other side of the Frenchman River is Josie Grant, who has prayed for eight years for a baby. She loves her husband, a deaf homesteader who paints and sings, but this won’t do.  

While a half-mad Josie follows a hint from the Lord, Spencer risks losing everything in a secret Vancouver rife with ‘confidence men'.  

Mad Hell-Rush of Days is a dark, tautly oiled portrait of life, desire, and loss in a long-forgotten era. A story of two misfits whose worlds collide on a wild, harsh prairie.

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