Between Two Shores

Catherine Duval is the child of a Mohawk mother and a French father, living in Montreal in 1759. She has no wish to take sides in a conflict that is tearing the continent apart, and she earns her living trading with French and British customers alike. That neutrality is tested when Samuel Crane, the British former fiancé who once broke her heart, is captured by her father. Samuel insists he holds knowledge that could bring the war to an end and begs Catherine to help him slip away.

Catherine wants peace, but she has no desire to aid the man who wronged her. New France is short of food, and the fighting has left her family and neighbors facing a winter that could prove fatal. When the war reaches her own doorstep, she and Samuel must escape by river toward the heart of the struggle between England and France. Their actions could shape the course of events, yet Catherine worries about what they may ultimately cost her.