Jessie Blackstone, a young widow of a marriage of convenience, lands in lawless, savage Skagway, Alaska in at the beginning of the 1890’s Alaskan Gold Rush. She barely knows how to take care of her self, let alone all those suddenly dependent on her for their livelihood. Facing brutal landscape, a sordid past and attraction to virile lumberjack Logan Pace, who is in her employ, she must forge her way into the man-driven business world and learn to survive on her own.

Lumberjack, Logan Pace, came to frointier Alaska to seek his fortune and recover from a broken heart.

Jessie was an unwilling pawn in the diabolical sceme by those in power to incite the Alaskan Gold Rush. Read the story to find how how and why.