Ladies of the Wilderness

To escape her guardian's plans to marry her, Lady Charlotte Fairfax steals away to Montreal to locate Reid McCoy, a fur trader who owes her fiancé a debt for saving his life. Even though European women are forbidden from entering the interior, she is desperate to get to her fiancé deep within the northwestern wilderness. Reid McCoy has worked hard for fifteen years to become a shareholder in the North West Company and is on the brink of realizing that goal. Taking Charlotte into the interior will not only put her life at risk, but it could also jeopardize his dreams. Honor bound to repay his debt, his only option is to have Charlotte dress as a man and enter as his assistant clerk. With Charlotte's guardian close on their trail and a personal rival willing to do anything to keep Reid from becoming a shareholder, they will embark on an epic journey that will test not only their strength and endurance, but their hearts, as well. Christy Award winner and bestselling author Gabrielle Meyer presents a new and thrilling historical adventure series set in the heart of the North American wilderness.

By 1815, Lady Eleanor Brooke's greatest regret is not marrying Arran MacLean when he proposed to her four years ago. Now, with her father in Newgate Prison, and a scandal hanging over her head, she escapes England and travels across the world to try to find the one man she's ever loved. Arran has buried himself in work, trying to forget his worst mistake, asking Lady Eleanor Brooke to marry him. As he tries to build the Red River Colony near Lake Winnipeg, disease, hunger, and the North West Company relentlessly fight against him and the colonists. But no matter how hard he tries, the memory of Eleanor's rejection is his harshest adversary. When Eleanor unexpectedly arrives at the edge of the Canadian wilderness with an orphaned baby in her arms, Arran's only goal is to get them safely back to England in the spring. But as the endless winter snow forces them together, they can no longer outrun their past. And when the spring dawns, they must decide if they have what it takes to fight for a future neither dared to dream.