White River CrossingA breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The North Water. A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost's chief factor, Magnus Norton,