Seeds of Pine

In Edmonton’s darkness, electric signs blink like “wicked eyes” burning their commercial message into the narrator’s soul. So she boards a westbound train, bound for the summer wilderness—and finds herself packed in with prospectors, railway gangs, and a woman fighting for her farm.

The Grand Trunk Pacific’s new steel trail runs west from Edmonton into a country of wheat fields, muskegs, and homesteads. Our sharp-eyed, free-spirited narrator is hungry for quiet and adventure, but the train brings her face to face with the hard bargains of frontier life. Beside her sits a farmer’s wife who has weathered crop failures and debt, only to learn that her husband means to sell the farm and move to town. She has another plan, and an agreement ready for his signature. What will happen when he discovers just how far she is prepared to go?

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