The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, washington (state), fiction, orphans, chinook indians, indians of north america, native americans, washington territory, history, 19th century, fiction, historical fiction