Escape from Gold Mountain: a Gold Mountain book
โ Scribed by Abbott, Zina
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 1687391130
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โฆ Synopsis
He never wished to abduct her. Can he help her escape? Ling Loi came from Canton, China; Luke McDaniels from Minnesota. Each of them find themselves trapped in situations from which they desperately wish to escape. As two unscrupulous men deny them their freedom and threaten their lives, they cross paths in the raucous gold mining town of Lundy high in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Are the differences which separate them too great to overcome? Or, will they join forces to free each other to claim the futures they each desire?
โฆ Subjects
United States
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