Harry's Legacy

While cross-country skiing in the mountains of Montana Tom Harris and Heather Scott come upon the century old ruins of the Ohio Queen Mine. Their curiosity leads them on a quest for the true story of the mine and the partners who owned it. They discover that In the 1880´s two miners, one from Ohio, the other from New Zealand, worked this productive mining claim in Montana Territory. The New Zealander, who had secretly married the daughter of one of the "town fathers," was forced to drop out of sight when his father in law became enraged over his daughter´s pregnancy. The Ohio partner was accused of murdering his partner, the missing New Zealander. He was forced to flee from a posse bent on immediate "justice." The enraged "town father" discovered a rich cache of gold which had been hidden by the partners before they fled. He secretly took the gold and claimed that he had mined it himself.

This story of the Ohio Queen Mine remained hidden for over a hundred years until Tom and Heather uncover the true story of the disappearance of the two owners of the Ohio Queen and set about to help make restitution for the injustice done to the original partners. In the course of this effort Scott and Heather become deeply committed to each other, while a love begins to grow between them . The unraveling of this story takes the reader from present day western Montana to the gold rush in Montana Territory in the 1880´s, then to the gold seekers of the Klondike in the Yukon, and from there to Arrowtown on the South Island of New Zealand.