The Canadian frontier, raw and uncharted. A woman named Fleda Druse runs the Carillon Rapids in a small boat, a feat no one else dares attempt. In that single act of defiance, she stakes her claim to a world still being drawn and redrawn by men with bigger ambitions. Gilbert Parker gives us two towns, Lebanon and Manitou, locked in a quiet war between tradition and the relentless march of progress. Fleda carries secrets in her blood; her mysterious heritage shadows every choice she makes, every man who watches her on the river and wonders what else she might defy. Max Ingolby sees the landscape and wants to reshape it. He sees Fleda and wants to possess her. But she belongs only to the rapids, to the dangerous freedom of the water. This is a novel about what it means to be untamed in an age that demands conformity.
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