"Nora Kelly\, a young but successful curat or with a series of important excavations already under her belt\, is appr oached by the handsome Historian\, Guy Porter\, to lead an expedition unli ke any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Part y\, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the win ter of 1847\, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains\, replete with tales of courage\, resource fulness\, bad luck\, murder\, barbarism--and\, finally\, starvation and ca nnibalism. Captivated by the Donner Party\, Nora agrees and they venture i nto the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly\, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg-- and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far mo re complex and surprising than they could have imagined...but it is one th at puts them both in mortal danger from a very real\, present-day threat i n which the search for the lost party\, and its fabled fortune in gold\, a re merely means to a horrifying end."
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