Description
Majestically it rose from the icy waters, the gateway to the awesome wilderness of Alaska. Sitka drew all
brand of adventurers, con men, criminals, and pioneers—men such as trailtough, battlehardened Jean
LaBarge. He left the swamps of the Susquehanna behind for the rugged beauty—and deadly challenges—of thisfrozen frontier. But the empirehungry Russians had already established a foothold in Sitka and they wouldn’t give it up without a fierce and treacherous struggle that stretched from San Francisco to the palaces of St.
Petersburg. Now Jean faces the most dangerous fight of his life: a fight for a passionate woman and the right
to claim Alaska for America.