James Oliver Curwood

Out of the night came Jan and into the lives of all those at the company post on Lac Bain, in the Canadian Northland. Jan, almost starved and frozen, enters into the lives of John Cummins and Melisse, his daughter, playing his violin for food. He stays to become a beloved member of their family and the community. But Jan has a deep mystery about his past that haunts him. When a stranger shows up at the camp, this hidden past is threatened exposure. Jan's mystery unravels as he faces life at the remote outpost during the early 1900's, a smallpox outbreak at the camp, and his love for little Melisse. It is the Honor of the Big Snows, part of his heritage, that Jan must keep, and that leads him to leave the post searching for his honor in his past.

The Flaming Forest, by James Oliver Curwood, is a rip-roaring tale of travel through the upper Canadian wilderness during the early 1900s, with a forest fire and of course a love story, all combined to bring a book that you can not put down. David Carrigan, out in the wilderness to catch Black Roger Audemard, a notorious murderer, is ambushed and taken hostage by the beautiful Jeanne Marie-Anne Boulain without explanation. His lovely captor will only tell him that all will be explained once they meet up with their leader, St. Pierre Boulain. Thus agreeing, David embarks on a journey of hundreds of miles with the Boulain Brigade as they traverse the Canadian rivers and trails towards the intended meeting. While seemingly free, he is quite aware that the Boulain men are guarding him. A Royal Northwest Canadian Mounty always gets his man. Or does he? Will David Carrigan catch Black Roger Audemard and escape his captors? Will he win the love of the illusive and possibly dangerous Jeanne Marie-Anne Boulain or be forced to arrest her and capture her? Read to find out