The Promise: Love, Loyalty & the Lure of Gold

It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John Cariboo Cameron, made one last promise to his fading young wife. The Promise is a compelling story of a great love and an epic struggle to honour a dying wifes final request: to take her body home to eastern Canada. Told in the voice of Robert Stevenson, Camerons friend and mining partner, the story travels with the two men as they leave the frozen goldfields of BC and carry Sophias body by sled, ship and rail to a tree-shaded cemetery near Cornwall, Ontario. However, she was buried amid mistrust and dark suspicions because Cameron refused to open the coffindid it truly contain his lovely, young wife? In this his first novel, Bill Gallaher provides unique insight into a famous legend of the gold rush.