Cold Edge of Heaven (Paperback)

Whit Fraser

ISBN 10: 1989417450 / ISBN 13: 9781989417454

Published by Boulder Books, Portugal Cove-St Philip's, 2022

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Paperback. Abandoned at a desolate Arctic outpost and haunted by memories of forbidden desire, Constable Will Grant preserves his sanity by investigating the mysterious deaths of two troubled Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers. Set in 1924 at a desolate police outpost on Devon Island in Canadas far north, this is a story of murder, mystery, and loveintensified by a clash of cultures between Inuit guides and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers who live and work alongside them.Will Grant is one of three constables who, along with their guides and families, are dropped on the windy gravel beach of Dundas Harbour. But no amount of trainingnot even the horrors of the First World Warwould prepare the officers for ice-locked isolation and physical threats from ocean storms, blizzards, avalanches, months of darkness, and marauding polar bears.The mental and emotional strain are exacerbated by two mysterious, violent deaths. When the Inuit abandon the outpost, Grant realizes that his values and beliefs have changed in ways he could not have imagined.Although alone and crushed by the inexplicable murders, Grant has learned much about the Arctic through Naudla, wife of one of the guidesand his secret lover. Through her, he discovers the magnificent beauty of the land and ice-covered ocean. This is not a frozen hell, but rather the cold edge of heaven.Cold Edge of Heaven is a historical fiction adventure set in the Canadian Arctic at the now-abandoned Royal Canadian Mounted Police outpost of Dundas Harbour. Stations such as these were central to Canada asserting its sovereignty over the vast far north, with the Mounties serving as "human flagpoles". Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Edge of Heaven (Paperback)
• Publisher: Boulder Books, Portugal Cove-St Philip's
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1989417450
• ISBN 13: 9781989417454
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Cold Edge of Heaven is a historical fictional adventure set in the Canadian High Arctic in the 1920's and based on Canada's determination to assert sovereignty over the vast area.

In 1924, three constables, along with three Inuit guides and two small children were dropped on the windy gravel beach called Dundas Harbor. No amount of training could prepare them for years of hell frozen over, ice-locked isolation and unimagined physical challenges. Remarkably, the mental and emotional strains became even greater challenges.

Mountie Will Grant is the only survivor. His comrades both die violently and mysteriously. Will realizes that his values and beliefs have changed in ways he couldn't have imagined. Alone and further crushed by the inexplicable deaths of his comrades, Will confronts his cold, dark, isolated frozen hell. With his spiritual beliefs conflicted and diminishing, he fights for months on end to maintain his sanity.

Overriding his depression, isolation and constant danger, is the nagging question: does anyone know where he is? Did the Captain who dropped them here even make it back south or is the Dundas Devon Detachment just another lost Arctic Expedition?

About the Author

Few people have experienced the high arctic as extensively and as personally as author Whit Fraser. For more than 50 years, beginning as a CBC reporter, his work has taken him to every part of the Canadian Arctic as well as Alaska and Greenland. Over that period, he visited the barren but beautiful, old RCMP detachment at Dundas Harbor, on Devon Island in the Northwest Passage five times. On his most recent trip in 2019, he spent several hours at an abandoned RCMP detachment, and three lonely graves on a hill top, he came away inspired to write this fictional account of life and death, love and lust in Canada's last and frozen frontier.