Gold Lust Conspiracy — Lynda Rees

Searching for elusive love, Jessie enters a marriage of convenience with wealthy Everett Blackstone. Men in power tax the young widow with carrying out an elaborate conspiracy to instigate the 1896 Alaskan Gold Rush. In lawless Skagway Jessie inherits responsibility for the livelihood of many, facing savage, magnificent landscape, brutal weather, a hostile man's business world, and a growing attraction to virile lumberjack Logan Pace. Can she forgive her past, build a future and discover the Mother Lode?