num_pages: 408
description: In early 1853 experienced California Trail guide Virginia Reeve is summoned to Boston by a mysterious benefactor who offers her a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: lead a party of 12 women into the wild hazardous Arctic to search for the lost Franklin Expedition. Its an extraordinary request but the party is made up of extraordinary women. Each brings her own strengths and skills to the expedition- and her own unsettling secrets. A year and a half later back in Boston Virginia is on trial when not all of the women return. Told in alternating timelines that follow both the sensational murder trial in Boston and the dangerous deadly progress of the womens expedition into the frozen North this heart-pounding story will hold readers rapt as a chorus of voices answer the trials all-consuming question: what happened out there on the ice?
language: English
title: The Arctic Fury
publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark