Autorentext

Rob has lived in the Yukon for nearly 50 years, enjoying a varied career in mining, that began working with prospectors and gold miners in the bush, and ended up in corporate boardrooms. Long captivated by the history of the Yukon and the Pacific Northwest, his imagination found fertile soil here, and over several years, "The Last Letter" took shape. This is his first novel. Rob and his wife Nancy now divide their time between Vancouver Island, and their beloved Yukon.

Klappentext

The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest. During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young homesteader is swept up in the hope and hype of the Klondike Gold Rush, and joins the great stampede to the Yukon. Readers experience the Gold Rush through the wide eyes of the nineteen-year-old farm kid. Through hardship and setbacks, liars and thieves, Seamus returns with a fortune, but the gold carries a curse. When the present-day brother and sister discover the shocking truth about the curse, sibling ties are ripped apart. Jack is compelled to expose the truth, while cunning and powerful Olivia, will do anything to keep the families' secret buried with the past. The Last Letter takes readers on a great adventure, from the rough and tumble boomtowns of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, to the opulent boardrooms of the powerbrokers of today.