The Rapids

Robert Fisher Clark is bound for Minneapolis—until a jolting train ride brings him word of a town undone by its own rapids. He changes his destination before the train even stops.

In early twentieth-century St. Marys, Ontario, an unfinished power canal and a failed investment have left the town short of money and confidence. Clark arrives with a different eye: where others see rusting works and wasted water, he sees power, industry and the makings of a city. His certainty catches the mayor’s attention, but turning a grand vision into a working enterprise will mean winning over a community already burned by one bold scheme. Can Clark make the rapids pay—and persuade St. Marys to risk its future on him?

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