Annie, on a quest given to her by an ancestor, travelled from her home north of Lake Huron to the Beaver Valley, the place where her hero Nimise Makwa, Brandi Shadly lived and died. Her mother charges Annie with completing Nimise's search for the light of knowledge and peace to protect it, she believed, from growing mysticism. This journey takes place in the book, The Seventh Path.
Invaders, from the aggressive industrial power, Erie Nation take Annie hostage along with several friends. The captors take them to Erie nation, which occupies much of what was once the state of Ohio south of Lake Erie. Annie soon understands that her quest is to destroy this entity. She realizes its misuse of knowledge is a greater threat than mystical belief. She does not realize, until later, that she will not be the one to do complete the task, but she is bringing the young boy who will be the key to success.
The solution requires uniting good people within Erie Nation with a power from the south. The final struggle leaves hope and Annie can then return home, free of her quest, and reach her journey's end.

Don Hayward was born in Sudbury Ontario in 1946. He grew up at a hydro-electric generating site on the Spanish River, surrounded by the natural world of the Canadian Shield hard rock country. This is the location for Echo of the Whip-poor-Will. Don resides in Goderich Ontario