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Red Bird (Paperback)
Stephanie Grace Whitson
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R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat
journey up the Missouri River to Montana...
She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who
fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher
living under a sense of duty and obligation to love the unlovable
people in the world. She isn't letting anything deter her from
solving a family mystery that surfaced after her mother's death. He
is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote
wilderness regions of Montana. Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend
Samuel Beck are opposites in every way... except in how they both
keep wondering if their paths will ever cross again.
Laura Rose White is one of the most gifted riverboat pilots on the
Missouri River--her late father taught her and her brother Joe
everything he knew, and even named their family's riverboat after
her. But in 1867, the idea of a 'skirt' being a captain is unheard
of. At least until Joe takes ill and dies in the middle of a trip,
leaving Laura grieving and halfway upriver with a full cargo. She
successfully takes charge of the crew and expertly guides the Laura
Rose back to St. Louis. But it seems her troubles are just
beginning. Laura learns Joe had taken out a loan, and if she fails
to repay it, she could lose the boat that is not only her
livelihood, but also her home. The only way to save it is to
convince the men in charge she's capable of being a captain and
pilot, and they have a few nearly insurmountable conditions. She
must secure a full cargo (who would trust their wares to a woman?),
she must find a chaperone (she is an unmarried lady, after all),
she must get to Fort Benton and back in less time than it would
take most male pilots, and she must get a licensed pilot to agree
to oversee her. The only man she can find for that job is her
brother's disreputable friend Finn MacKnight. She's loath to ask
him - though he's as good a pilot as she is, he has a terrible
reputation. But a woman alone in the world will do what she must to
survive, and Laura may just gain far more than she ever expected on
this historic trip.
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