The Lamp in the Valley - Softcover

Stringer, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 166766249X ISBN 13: 9781667662497

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

A young woman leaves a comfortable life Outside to take a post at a remote reservation school. Days of work, illness, and scarce supplies test resolve as the valley reveals a community pulled between tradition and change. Letters and a rough map suggest her late father left an unproven claim in the Chakitana, drawing her onto trails of dredges, dog teams, and sudden storms. A hard-driving engineer arrives to unite scattered holdings and bring in heavy machinery, setting old sourdoughs, cannery hands, and agitators on edge.

An uneasy truce turns to threat on river, rail, and snow, forcing choices about loyalty, truth, and the future of the North. As winter closes, she must protect her students, face the claim’s risks, and decide whether the promise she carries belongs to the past—or to a new life she did not expect. Along the Inside Passage and across the Matanuska and Tanana, the country itself becomes rival and ally, beautiful, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 166766249X
• ISBN 13: 9781667662497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168