Bücher von Leah Lindeman

World War II, 1943. The United States with Canada's cooperation begins a secret construction of a highway and an oil pipeline in the northern territories that will fuel defense against a possible Japanese invasion. Men and women answer the call of the wild, More so, the stronger call of abundant money. Eleanor Mackenzie arrives in the North ready to stake her independence. One choice delivers a disastrous consequence that gravely alters the future she had envisioned for herself. Then comes a man who offers her a solution to keep her job, to keep her independence...but she must walk the road she would never have chosen. Will she keep her guard up and fight for her independence and freedom or lay down her arms for unconditional love?

Evelyn Richardson loses her maimed husband Carl as a result of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Bedridden because of an injury, she is unable to immediately search him out. The chances of finding him grow thin as the days pass into cruel winter, and the chaos of a shattered city remains.Evelyn is encouraged by her disheartening mother to leave Carl for dead and to move on with her life. At first she refuses such a notion; but when Gerald MacCrae, a doctor at Camp Hill Hospital, enters her heart in friendship, her resolve weakens and finally disintegrates. Gerald harbours a secret from the past and within the present that threatens to rip apart any chance at happiness for Evelyn again. Can she redeem any shred of familiarity from her past or will she forge ahead on the wings of a new life, a new love?