Toward the Midnight Sun
Written by Eoin Dempsey
Narrated by Lauren Ezzo
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
From the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest comes a page-turning epic of adventure, suspense, and romance set against the rich and ruthless backdrop of the Klondike gold rush.
Seattle, 1897. Anna Denton is not like the other prospectors traveling to the Yukon on the promise of riches. It’s duty—not profit—that calls her into the wild unknown. With her family nearing financial ruin, Anna has agreed to marry Henry Bradwell, the wealthy King of the Klondike.
She meets Will and Silas, childhood friends, on the steamer north. After the ship docks in a lawless Alaska town, Anna’s chaperones run afoul of local criminals, leaving her stranded. Will and Silas agree to escort her the hundreds of treacherous miles to Dawson City—the gateway to the goldfields—and her betrothed, a man she doesn’t know.
Upon their arrival, Bradwell warmly welcomes them all. But as a brutal winter sets in, relations sour, and Anna is caught between the promise her family made to the power-hungry Bradwell and her feelings for Will. Anna and her companions soon find themselves in a deadly game where few can be trusted and where the greatest danger in the frozen wilderness of the Klondike is man himself.
Eoin Dempsey
Eoin Dempsey is the bestselling author of Toward the Midnight Sun; White Rose, Black Forest; Finding Rebecca; and The Bogside Boys. His novels have been translated into a dozen different languages and have been optioned for film and radio production. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Eoin moved to the United States in 2008 and currently lives in Philadelphia with his wonderful wife, Jill, and their three beautiful and crazy sons, Robbie, Sam, and Jack. Learn more at www.eoindempseybooks.com.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The book starts out as a adventure in the Klondike by hour 6 progresses to unwelcome love scenes and unexpected union between men. Wish I would’ve been warned, I did not finish
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anna sets off from San Francisco for Dawson City in 1897 to marry the so-called "King of the Klondike", someone she barely knows, to rescue her family's finances. The story tells of her struggle from Skagway along the notorious Klondike trail, accompanied by two brothers. As someone who has visited Skagway and travelled the White Pass & Yukon Railway to the summit the prospectors would have had to climb with huge packs, the enormity of the challenges they faced is obvious. The book gives an accurate impression of what life must have been like for prospectors then and in particular the extra challenges women faced.