Fugitive Wife

<p>The year is 1900 in gold-prospecting Alaska. Essie a Midwestern farm girl fleeing from a stormy marriage joins up with prospectors bound for Nome where the golden sands teem with dreamers schemers and high rollers. When Leonard Essie's stubborn and volatile husband travels north astonishing scenes of pursuit sacrifice and crucial decision rise to a conclusion that is both surprising and inevitable. Powerfully evoking a past world and the variable territory of the heart this novel establishes Peter C. Brown as a consummate storyteller. Reading group guide included.</p>