Publisher's Synopsis
Sometimes you need a woman's touch to drill through solid granite.Geraldine Halloran resolved not to be terrified. She signed on as telegraph operator, one of only two women at Tunnel 6, a railroad tunnel to join the continent. . It will be like nothing else in the world. It will be over 1600 feet long, at 7000 feet altitude. It will need nitroglycerin and more than ten thousand Chinese laborers. It will need courage. Geraldine needs courage in the face of explosions, landslides, and blizzards. Then she realizes someone is trying to sabotage the railroad and kill the man she's fallen in love with.Stetson Applegate is that man. He deserted from the Confederate Army because he prefers building to fighting. Now he thinks he knows who is trying to stop the railroad. He came to California to work. He discovers he will have to fight, because some ideas are too great for surrender.Now travel to a time past, which haunts us yet today.
