The Frozen Deep

Two men. One woman. A frozen hell that will test them all. Clara Burnham has made her choice: she loves Frank Aldersley, a young sailor departing with the Arctic expedition. But on the eve of his departure, Clara's gift of Second Sight reveals something terrible in the ice ahead. She has seen the death that awaits. Worse, she cannot shake the shadow of Richard Wardour, a hot-tempered sailor who believes with fierce certainty that Clara was meant for him. He too is bound for the frozen north. When disaster strands both men in the Arctic wasteland, they must abandon their rivalry and fight together for survival. But Wardour carries his grievance like a loaded pistol. When the moment comes, will he let the man he hates die, or will something nobler surface from the cold? Based on the real tragedy of the 1845 Franklin expedition that claimed 129 lives, this is a gripping tale of vengeance tested against survival, and the strange mercy of sacrifice. It inspired the character of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, and remains a stark meditation on what love drives us to become.