From Publishers Weekly
It's 1897. A new gold rush is on, and Katy O'Connell of Willow Bend, Mont., is a woman ahead of her time. She has gold fever and wants to make her fortune the hard way: pan for it. Dressed as a boy, Katy offers her services as a guide to Jonah Armstrong, a Chicago newspaper reporter en route to Canada to cover the story. Despite Katy's boyish clothes and her various male vices (brawling, riding, shooting, etc.), she's all girl and a wonderfully interesting and complex character. Jonah is not the typical alpha hero, but he's appealing just the same. Carmichael's (Outcast) plot is simple and uncomplicated, and the action never-ending. The description of the trek to the Canadian Klondike reads as if the author's been there and done that.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Posing as a boy and offering protection services to a handsome Chicago newsman who is covering the Klondike gold rush, Katy O'Connell incites her client's fury and then passion when her true gender is discovered.
