Published: March 16, 2012
Words: 91,842 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476397955

Short description

Chronicling the intersection of two lives, Chance and Emily's, as they meet up and separate throughout the years. Time and again they rescue each other, but can't seem to stay together as their lives are out of synch.

Extended description

Chance Fraser, orphaned, grew up working on the canals of industrial England. He foils a kidnapping and rescues Emily, the young daughter of a wealthy family, but doesn't reveal himself to her. He meets her ten years later, serving on a steamship which she takes to Egypt to join her husband. In Tunis she gets into trouble and is accused of spying. Again Chance rescues her. Skipping forward ten years, Chance is wounded and gets captured in the siege of Vicksburg in the Civil War and is locked up in Helmira, the notorious prison camp. He gets sick, and this times, Emily nurses him back to health. Again they are separated and lose track of each other. Chance works on the transcontinental railroad then ends up in the gold fields of British Columbia panning for gold. When he strikes it rich, he goes looking for her.

Tags

gold rush, adventure, kidnapping, american civil war, canal, nurses, narrowboat, transcontinental railroad, prisoner of war camp

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Review by: Doris Holmes on Jan. 22, 2013 :
This is an epic story of two people who keep passing like ships in the night with brief encounters. Had they both not had the situations in their lives, they would not have become the people they needed to be. Great story with well developed characters.
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