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Cynthia Jean Gaffney (Paul) is a retired Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Educator living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Her spouse and co-author, Ronald Edward Gaffney is a retired lawyer living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Cynthia is a graduate of both the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, in Fredericton.

Ronald attended St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and later received his law degree at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He is the author of three previous works about the colonial history of Maritime Canada, one entitled “Battleground Nova Scotia” (2015/reprint 2019), a second entitled “Fire Over Acadia” (2018) and finally, “When The Eagle Strikes” (2019). The pair has two sons, Thomas and Charles, and five grandchildren.

The story revolves around a First Nations soldier (Maliseet) who joins the Royal Canadian Artillery and is stationed overseas during World War II, fighting in both Italy and Northwest Europe. While in the United Kingdom he meets, then marries, a British girl who as a ‘war bride’ sail to Canada in 1946. The pair set up housekeeping on a First Nations reserve in northwestern New Brunswick and the story follows them and their family through their trials and tribulations both at Maliseet, New Brunswick and later in the capital city of Fredericton, New Brunswick.