Synopsis
When gold was discovered in California in 1849, the news spread like wildfire throughout the country. There were three ways to get to the gold fields and the promise of incredible wealth. The first was by ship around Cape Horn, the route taken by Rob Merriman and Clay Collins, fleeing a murder charge in Charleston. The second route was by stern-wheeler through the Gulf of Mexico, and from there overland to the Pacific. This was the route taken by Trevor Sloan, father of the man Merriman killed. Lisa Sizemore's parents chose the third way, overland by wagon train and horse. When her father uprooted his family and headed west to seek his fortune, Lisa was afraid she would never see Clay Collins again. Whether drawn together by fate or luck, those who survived their brutal journeys would meet again in California with results no one could have expected.
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About the Author
Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only eighty miles from Jamestown where fellow Western novelist Lous L’Amour was born twenty-nine years earlier. Much like L’Amour, Champlin had French/Irish ancestry and his father was a large-animal veterinarian, fostering his love of horses, buffalo, and other wild and domestic animals. Champlin grew up along the fringes of the old frontier in Nebraska, Missouri, and Arizona before moving to Tennessee. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined an offer to become a Border Patrol Agent with the U.S. Immigration Service in order to finish work on his master’s degree in English at Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University). He’s the author of more than forty Western novels.
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