This saga chronicles the lives and fortunes of four generations of women
in the York family, from the Russian occupation of Alaska to the
building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Detailing the triumphs and
trials of what became a dynasty of fish and timber barons during a
crucial century in Alaska's history, the novel opens with teenage Nadia
Karimoff, a half-Russian, half-Native American orphan living in Sitka,
being kidnapped and sold to a mysterious Yankee named Noah York.