Twenty-nine-year-old Miss Ruth had been teaching school in Southeast Alaska for nine years while secretly searching for the father she had never met.
Tasked with taking several of her students to their northern villages coincided with the gold rush at Nome on the Seward Peninsula. Knowing that her father had come north, chasing all that glittered, gave her hope that she might learn of his whereabouts.
Tested by sailing over 1700 miles of treacherous seas as well as the severe conditions of a brutal Alaskan winter, and the despicable and desperate men she met along the way, she has no choice but to do the unthinkable.
Emotionally and spiritually broken, starving and frost-bitten, Miss Ruth began to doubt herself and Bozhe. Could He repair the damage she had done?