Could They Fulfill Their Dreams in this Untamed Land?
Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father’s insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended.
Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family’s fledgling … family’s fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to pursue those dreams and opens the door to an acquaintance with Grace, who has purchased passage north.
Drawn together by need and circumstance, Grace and Peter form a faltering friendship. But when her deserted fiancé continues to manipulate her loved ones, can she find peace in the wake of his wrath?
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I loved the characters and the setting! Peterson did a great job of making me feel as if I were in Alaska during historical times as the Gold Rush occurred.
Yukon gold rush, three women traveling alone, at least two of them outspoken women who tend to tangle with men in authority (like a ship’s captain, and a man who’s out for revenge). One needs to escape the one out for revenge, so the other two conspire to help her and they end up in Alaska. He’d never find them there. But he does! The characters, …
My husband read this book first and said it was awesome! He recommended I read it too. I thought it was well written, and well edited. It’s a good historical novel. The characters are well described, and the struggles they encounter were very realistic for those times during the Alaska gold rush. Their reliance on their Christian faith in God to …
Treasures of the North, book 1 in the Yukon Quest series by Tracie Peterson, was well written and had a lot of variety in each character’s personality and story. This is one of the very few
series books that I actually want to read the next book from! Tracie Peterson published this in 2001, which was 19 years ago! I knew this would be one of …