Thereβs many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. Sheβs come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaskaβto start over.
Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostituteβone of the working girls her brother has been treatingβis found brutally murdered, Charlotte learns firsthand how rough the frontier can be. Although the town may not consider the murder of a prostitute worthy of investigation, Charlotteβs feminist beliefs motivate her to seek justice for the woman. And thereβs something elseβthe woman was hiding a secret, one that reminds Charlotte of her own painful past.
As Charlotte searches for answers, she soon finds her own life in danger from a cold-blooded killer desperate to keep dark secrets from seeing the light of dayβ¦
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