Flower of the North: A Modern Romance

An artist with a poet's eye for beauty has found something worth painting in the Canadian wilderness, and it isn't just the landscape. Tom Gregson spotted Eileen Brokaw at a remote trading post and swore he'd never seen a more magnificent woman. Now in a cabin lit by a single oil lamp, he lights another cigarette and dreams of his next masterpiece while his friend Philip Whittemore grows increasingly troubled. There's a reason they've been brought to the far north, and it isn't for the scenery. Something dangerous is brewing, something that threatens their plans and their lives. As the two men discuss strategy and remember past exploits, the arrival of Eileen Brokaw looms on the horizon. The wilderness has a way of stripping men down to their essential selves, and in this unforgiving north country, love and danger bloom side by side. Curwood writes with the kind of passionate, overwrought intensity that defined early 20th-century romantic adventure, delivering exactly what fans of the genre crave: sweeping sentiment, hazardous stakes, and a heroine worth crossing wild territory to win.