Whitecloud Literary "To breathe is to write." Pine Marten Pine Marten is the tale of two lost souls. One, a man, has chosen to live the rest of his life in the isolation of the Missouri woods of 1855. Beleaguered by a demon, his days are spent on guard, his nights in fitful sleep as he recalls a terrible sin in his dreams. Nearby and unknown to the man is a boy, lost, bewildered and struggling for two things, to remember who he is and why he’s where he is, and to simply stay alive in the hostile forest. A third man happens on the scene, a hunter who is used to seeing things others might miss. He is instrumental is solving the riddle of the two people lost in the wilderness; lost in different ways. Read the first two chapters. Go to next book. Return Home.