OVER LAND, ICE, & SEA INTRODUCTION
Newfoundland, 1825
Susanna Ainsworth is an exile. After rejecting countless marriage proposals, her merchant father banished her across the Atlantic to her uncle's whaling outpost on Newfoundland's northern coastline, where she's spent the past two years with only her aunt and her secret journals for company. But Susanna knows what she must do to return to London: crush her outspokenness, keep sweet, and prove she'll do whatever society (or this small version of it) expects of her. If losing herself is the price, she’ll pay it.
Elisha Barrett, Captain of His Majesty’s Ship Persistence, will leave his mark on the landscape even if it kills him. The son of a famous naval Captain and failed Arctic explorer who died under mysterious circumstances, he jumped at the chance to join Parry's Expedition to find the illusive Northwest Passage and finish what his father started. Skewing his direct orders, he sails Persistence as far as she can go into the ice, until it's too late...
Everything changes the night Susanna watches a ship wreck against her shores, and a young, wild eyed Captain asks for help.
