A backwoods princess

Set in an isolated northern trading region, the narrative follows Laurentia Blackburn, a young woman raised among Indigenous foster‑sisters, and the complex web of fur‑trade rivalries around her family post. Free trader Andrew Gault and financier David Ogilvie maneuver to secure dwindling furs, while Blackburn's authority over the Slavis and local resources resists outside encroachment. Tensions escalate through sabotage, siege, and betrayals that force desperate journeys downriver, episodes of hunger and pursuit, and a final confrontation that tests loyalty and survival. Along the way the story examines pride, commerce versus community, and the harsh demands of frontier life.