Book description
In the summer of 1897, Fiona MacGillivray and her eleven year-old son,
Angus, arrive in Vancouver in time to hear the news gold discovered in
the Klondike! Fiona immediately sets off for Skagway, Alaska, intent on
opening a theatre. After one encounter with infamous gangster Soapy
Smith and his henchman Paul Sheridan, she decides to pursue her
ambitions on the other side of the border in Dawson City. As a dying man
breathes his last, he passes on to Sheridan a map pointing due north to
the fabled Gold Mountain, where hills of gold keep the heat from hot
springs contained in a valley as warm as California.
Sheridan is determined to become the king of Gold Mountain and to marry
Fiona and make her his queen. Fiona, of course, wants no part of these
mad plans. When Sheridan refuses to take no for an answer, Fiona must
rely on Corporal Sterling of the North-West Mounted Police, young Angus,
and a headstrong assortment of townsfolk to help thwart his scheme.
“Canadian author Vicki Delany knows her history. Over the span of her
three novels, she has created vivid, memorable characters and unleashed
them in the feral setting of Dawson Creek. There is a lot to like in
these stories - intrigue, greed, romance, historical detail, wily
characters, and a warm-hearted tale of a single mother struggling to
scrape out a living in a time and place where women had little or no
rights. The prose is smooth and easy, making this a great whodunit!
Highly recommended.”
Vicki Delany is the author of many successful
mystery novels. She is also the author of Gold Fever and
Gold Digger, the two previous novels in the Klondike
series. Vicki lives in Picton, Ontario.
