The Frozen Lady — Susan Arnout

It is turn-of-the-century Alaska. The gold seekers come in hordes to Fairbanks, seduced by a dream that would make them all rich.

Among them is Flame Ryan, a beautiful young Seattle woman bought and sold by those who knew how to play the game and win. And Nuka, a homeless Eskimo boy whose search for a family forces him into the white man's world.

A stunning portrayal of the collision of two cultures, The Frozen Lady is a dramatic evocation of Alaska before and since statehood, its two opposing worlds, the tempestuous, pioneering men and women who people them and the events that are now uniquely a part of the American experience.