Margaret Lane, the daughter of a senator, is used to the luxuries of wealth and prestige. He also knows the dangers that the mountain holds. Chief Ranger Ashford Brayden has grown up on the mountain and is well aware of how to care for the park.
Karen Barnett’s vintage national parks novels bring to vivid life President Theodore Roosevelt’s vision for protected lands, when he wrote in Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter: "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred."īarnett plunges readers into the dangerous beauty of 1920s Mount Rainier National Park. What will Margie and Ford sacrifice to preserve the splendor and simplicity of the wilderness they both love?
When Margie’s former fiancé sets his mind on developing the Paradise Inn and its surroundings into a tourist playground, the plans might put more than the park’s pristine beauty in danger. The job of watching over an idealistic senator’s daughter with few practical survival skills seems a waste of resources. It’s 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier’s long shadow.īut Chief Ranger Ford Brayden is still haunted by his father’s death on the mountain, and the ranger takes his work managing the park and its crowd of visitors seriously. An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true–that’s what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God’s gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainier National Park.
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