In August of 2017, after his grandfather’s funeral, James Roslyn unexpectedly finds a peculiar and decades-old note that was written by his grandfather and hidden between the pages of a book.
Inside of the note, James’s grandfather, Hugh Casey, describes a mysterious Ojibwe reservation concealed deep in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Casey details how he discovered the village by accident in his youth and was invited to spend several days with the tribe. Over the course of those few days, the village—with its people, landscape, and culture—redirected his life by realigning him with his proper path.
However, after reading the note, James realizes that his grandfather never returned to the village—despite always meaning to and even asking James to drive him there several months before his passing.
James, being in the midst of several personal struggles and wrestling with his own regrets, becomes determined to find the elusive village and travel there to honor his grandfather in an attempt to rectify his own perceived mistakes.
James enlists the help of his older brother, Alan, and the pair pack their car full of fishing and camping gear before traveling north in search of the reservation.
However, when they discover the elusive village, the two brothers come to discover that everything in front of them is much more than it seems.
The Mighty Esox is told from James’s perspective as he details the profound week that he spent in Aanakwad five years earlier—where he rediscovered love, was challenged to reconsider everything he thought he knew, developed a fiery obsession with catching an impossible fish, and unexpectedly found himself as an essential character within the concluding moments of a supernatural mystery that he was unable to see as it was unfolding.

In this supernatural Native American religious mystery and philosophical fiction novel, G. Edward Martin explores the complex and unanswerable questions about whether we exert free will or are tools of fate, whether our worst moments and decisions can also serve a higher purpose, and how we can live in a sustainable and connected way within the context of our community, environment, thoughts, and beliefs.

From the author:

This is perhaps my favorite story I have written. This title also includes the novella: "The Blueberry Daughter," and this book is an amazing exploration of some of the deepest introspective topics and our relationship with God, reality, and destiny.

Here are a few interesting facts about this metaphysical and supernatural religious mystery novel: I made all of the paintings before I wrote the first word because I needed them to better understand the story. The original idea for this novel came from a dream I had in 2017 and held onto for 5 years. I dreamt the woman in the red hood with one eye that is entirely white and one eye entirely black, weeks before I finally painted her. I learned a new detail about my own story last month, when I realized that the main character was led astray when he was torn between his intuition and his reason, but chose reason over intuition. In other words, both tools are all we have; however, intuition must come first.