Conjuror's House: A Romance of the Free Forest

She had never known anything beyond the river and the pines. Then he arrived. Virginia Albret has spent her life at Conjuror's House, a remote Hudson Bay trading post ruled by her father with absolute authority. The wilderness stretches endlessly around her, yet her world contains only the post's handful of traders and the Indigenous peoples who pass through. When Ned Trent paddles into view during the autumn trading season, his canoe cuts through her carefully ordered existence like a blade. He's entered territory forbidden by the Fur Trading Company, and the penalty for such trespass is la Longue Traverse, a death sentence disguised as exile. As Virginia learns the secrets of this dangerous man, she faces an impossible choice: remain loyal to her father's world, or risk everything for a love that could cost them both. White renders the northern wilderness with breathtaking intensity - its brutal winters, its haunting silence, its capacity to both destroy and transform. This is a story for readers who crave adventure tempered by romance, and for those who believe the most dangerous territories are those of the human heart.