Beyond the Wild River: A Novel (For Historical Fiction Fans)

Beyond the Wild River: A Novel (For Historical Fiction Fans)

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disappeared from her familyâ€™s estate the night of a double murder.

Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre has rarely strayed from her familyâ€™s estate in the Scottish Borderlands, save for the occasional trip to Edinburgh, where her father, a respected magistrate, conducts his businessâ€”and affairs of another kind. Evelyn has always done her duty as a daughter, hiding her boredom and resentment behind good mannersâ€”so when an innocent friendship with a servant is misinterpreted by her father as an illicit union, Evelyn is appalled.

Yet the consequence is a welcome one: she is to accompany her father on a trip to North America, where theyâ€™ll visit New York City, the 1893 Worldâ€™s Fair in Chicago, and conclude with a fishing expedition on the Nipigon River in Canada. Now is her chance to escape her cloistered life, see the world, and reconnect with her father.

Once theyâ€™re on the Nipigon, however, Evelyn is shocked to discover that their guide is James Douglas, the former stable hand and her one-time friend who disappeared from the estate after the shootings of a poacher and a gamekeeper. Many had assumed that James had been responsible, but Evelyn never could believe it. Now, in the wilds of a new world, far from the constraints of polite society, the truth about that day, James, and her father will be revealedâ€¦to stunning consequences.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-04-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-04-18
Format	Kindle eBook

Beyond the Wild River: A Novel (For Historical Fiction Fans)

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