Lanterns on the Skeena

<p>In the spring of 1919 on British Columbia's Skeena River a strike idles the cannery lines-and death rides the tide in the wake of influenza. Ailsa Penhaligon a beekeeper-chemist raised on the docks can buy the sick a few precious hours with a lantern ward of ash honey and breath. To ferry forbidden medicine past company patrols she forges a convenient engagement with strike leader Theo Sorsa a quiet boatwright who reads tides like blueprints.</p><p>What begins as a ruse turns into a partnership built at thresholds: doorjambs and dock edges picket lines and parish steps. As the town fights for wages housing and dignity-and as the river keeps its own counsel-Ailsa and Theo must decide what truth their vow can carry when the peace arrives and the watching begins.</p><p><strong>Historical fiction labor & class romantic suspense. </strong></p>