β Scribed by Shelley Blanton-Stroud
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
After the tragic death of her husband and son on a remote island in Washingtonβs San Juan Islands, Eliza Waite joins the throng of miners, fortune hunters, business owners, con men, and prostitutes traveling north to the Klondike in the spring of 1898. When Eliza arrives in Skagway, Alaska, she has less than fifty dollars to her name and not a friend in the worldβbut with some savvy, and with the help of some unsavory characters, Eliza opens a successful bakery on Skagwayβs main street and befriends a madam at a neighboring bordello. Occupying this spaceβa place somewhere between traditional and nontraditional feminine rolesβEliza awakens emotionally and sexually. But when an unprincipled man from her past turns up in Skagway, Eliza is fearful that she will be unable to conceal her identity and move forward with her new life. Part diary, part recipe file, and part Gold Rush history, Eliza Waite transports readers to the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of a raucous and fleeting era of American history.
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