An historical thriller set in a remote mining community in the American North West at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, where the expectations of the approaching new century play out against the reality of the euphoria and promise of the gold rush coming to an end. A story of greed and betrayal, of innocent hope and pitiless cruelty.A young English reporter, Thomas Speake, comes from Chicago to the mining town of Hope to record the lives of...