Winter in the High Sierra

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>November 1899. </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York society belle Louisa MacGregor heartsick after a broken engagement flees her old life aboard the last westbound train of the season whose track cuts through the very heart of the steep and forbidding Sierra Nevada Mountains.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When an early blizzard traps her train in a remote mountain pass Louisa is fast asleep in her luxurious palace car. The big train proves too heavy to make it over the snow-covered summit and the engineer makes a fateful decision: to lighten the load he crowds all his passengers into the first two cars and leave the rest of his train behind to the mercy of the elements.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Asleep Louisa does not hear the conductor's urgent cries and she and her palace car are left behind. When she awakens she finds herself cold alone and deserted in the most rugged wilderness on the continent.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She is near despair when a solitary mountain man-whom she comes to know only as 'Bandit'-locates her abandoned train. The handsome mysterious Bandit-who seems to carry with him a deep sadness of his own-leads Louisa over the mountaintops and down to his tidy cabin nestled in a secluded valley surrounded by the towering peaks of the High Sierra.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With no prospect of rescue until spring Lou and Bandit must find a way to survive the deadliest winter in fifty years. Trapped in a wild mountain paradise that is by turns unspeakably beautiful and utterly terrifying these two lost people must learn to trust each other-and perhaps find the true meaning of life love and redemption.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rich with historical detail wilderness adventure and heartfelt romance </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter in the High Sierra </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is perfect for readers who enjoy:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heartfelt clean romances</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nature and healing journeys</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inspirational love stories with grace and wit</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Western snowbound survival stories</span></li></ul><p></p><p></p>