Beyond the Sand Creek Bridge
By: Scott Wyatt
Publisher: Highland House Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Issaquah, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780988238800
Subjects: Railroad construction workers; Fiction; History; Chinese Americans; Trials (Homicide); Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Description: 1882. Northern Pacific Railroad Camp, Idaho Territory. The body of Sheriff Roger Langston is found beneath the Sand Creek Bridge. Chinese railroad worker Wong Hok-Ling is charged with murder days after the unexpected arrival of his fiancee, Mei-Yin, who has escaped her unscrupulous father and stowed away aboard a ship bound for America. Jason McQuade, the territory's newest lawyer, must defend the accused, but after encountering the beautiful Mei-Yin how far is he willing to go to save his client's life?
Notes: A novel.