Day Eight

On a summer day in 1902, the innocent John Barrington Ashley from a small mining town in Illinois was sentenced to death for the murder of his old friend and partner Breckenridge Lansing. Five days later, on the way to his execution, he was mysteriously rescued by a group of complete strangers, went into hiding, and his trail was lost. Thus began this extraordinary story, in which the fates of Ashley himself, his children, and the children of the slain Lansing intertwined in a bizarre way –– a story that included voyages through exotic lands and dangerous adventures, passionate love, great self-sacrifice, and thorny roads to fame and success.