It is 1896 in the Yukon
Territory, Canada. The largest gold strike in the annals of human history has
just been made; however, word of the discovery will not reach the outside world
for another year.
By happenstance, a
fifty-nine-year-old Huck Finn and his lady friend, Molly Lee, are on hand, but they
are not interested in gold. They have come to that neck of the woods seeking adventure.
Someone should have warned
them, “Be careful what you wish for.”
When disaster strikes,
they volunteer to save the day by making an arduous six hundred mile journey by
dog sled in the depths of a Yukon winter. They race against time, nature, and
man. With the temperature hovering around seventy degrees below zero, they must
fight every day if they are to live to see the next.
On the frozen trail, they
are put upon by murderers, hungry wolves, and hostile Indians, but those
adversaries have nothing over the weather. At seventy below, your spit freezes
a foot from your face. Your cheeks burn—your skin turns purple and black as it
dies from the cold. You are in constant danger of losing fingers and toes to
frostbite.
It is into this world
that Huck and Molly race.
They cannot stop. They
cannot turn back. They can only go on. Lives hang in the balance—including
theirs.
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