Charlee Lebeau The Salish Wind

Charlee Lebeau has to disappear. With the help of her best friend Jake and the San Francisco Underground Railroad, she talks her way onto a merchant schooner bound for Fort Victoria in the British Territories, an ill-gotten gold mine share certificate in hand. But pretending to be a cabin boy is the least of her challenges, as the journey north proves to be much more than she bargained for . . . "They pulled a burlap bag over my head. My neck wobbled as they lifted me and carried me out like a sack of potatoes. I couldn't fight. Help! Mizzy! Mrs. Plea! I'm being kidnapped! They couldn't hear me. The words tore around in my head and crashed in the back of my throat as I plunged into darkness." This new book from C.V. Gauthier, packed with extraordinary characters and thrilling adventures, continues the tale that began with Charlee Lebeau & the Gambler's Promise....

"I looked around warily, just as the boy had done. The dock was deserted. Suddenly, a shot rang out beside me! I jumped away from it so hard, I nearly tumbled into the water. Nobody was there. A sudden gust of wind had caught a loose canvas and snapped it against a mast. A shiver ran up my spine. I'd been warned again." It's 1858, and Charlee Lebeau isn't your typical girl. She's worked as a hired hand ever since her Papa took the foreman's job on the Miller ranch in Sonoma. Thanks to her best friend Jake, the boss's son, she's learned as much as any boy. She's got big ideas. She wants a life nobody thinks a girl like her can have. The summer she turns fourteen, however, everything begins to unravel. Jake is going off to school in San Francisco. Although she has always wanted a life of independence and adventure, Charlee is slated to take an ordinary job in the local town, and that's only the beginning of her trouble. Her rich Uncle Jack, a professional gambler, suddenly shows up at the ranch and offers to take her to live with him in his San Francisco mansion. It's a chance to become something more than hired help and to be in the same city as Jake. But is it wise to trust a gambler's promise?...

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