Tender Is the Touch

Headstrong Sydney Delandy never let being female in the 1880s stop her from pursuing her dreams. So with an employment contract in hand, she strikes out for the frozen North to present herself in person to her astonished new boss. — Mike MacAllister thought he had hired a man not the bewitching miss who now stands before him. Alaska, however, is no place for a woman and the dashing entrepreneur resolves to do whatever it takes to send Sydney scurrying back to a warmer and safer clime. But the stubborn young beauty is determined to prove herself equal to this perilous and breathtaking land and, in the process, melt the icy heart of her handsome employer with passion's fire and a love that blazes brighter than the Northern Lights.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.