Book Description:
They'll have to conquer more than the Klondike Trail to reach her father in time—they’ll have to overcome their past too.
After months of silence from her father in the Klondike, Tava Rutherford finally receives word from him. Only the outdated letter reveals that her father is ill and may be dying. Desperate to discover his fate, Tava resolves to make the journey to the wilds of northwestern Canada. But Jess Lawmen, her ranch foreman and the man who broke her heart, insists she doesn't go alone. Jess intends to keep his promise to look out for her—even if that means traveling thousands of miles with Tava, the woman he claims to feel just friendship for but has never stopped loving.
With their own ragtag group of travelers in tow, Tava and Jess confront one challenge after another as they join the hundreds of stampeders scrambling to reach the goldfields. But as the two of them come face to face with their past hurts and mistakes in their race to reach Tava’s father, they will have to decide whether to cling to safety or risk their hearts for something even greater.
Review:
Stacy Henrie weaves an entertaining story about a young woman traveling across untamed wilderness to find her father after receiving word that he'd taken ill at his gold claim. This may have been the first book I've read that focused on the Klondike Gold Rush, and I found the travel that people went through to get to there to be quite interesting.
To make the journey even more interesting, Henrie adds in the complication of Tava's traveling companion being her first love. Jess had made it clear that there could be nothing between them years before, but she still loved him.
Quite a bit of focus was given to Jess's secret past, and when it was revealed I was surprised that there wasn't more to it. But, that didn't detract too much, and I was given the happy ending that I craved.
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Tour Schedule:
9/22 - Wishful Endings / LDS and Lovin It
9/23 - Literary Time Out / Julie Coulter Bellon / My Book a Day / Singing Librarian Books
9/24 - Katie’s Clean Book Collection / Bookworm Lisa / Empower Moms
9/25 - The Bibliophile Files / Kellie Dickes / Books are Sanity
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