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BECCA'S KISS: Murder and a Broken Heart in Alaska (A Klondike Gold Miner's Life) Paperback – October 12, 2020

by JOYCE DERENAS (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
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How does a forbidden kiss end up in MURDER?
Dawson gold miner, Romeo Poulin, visits a good friend and Tlingit Indian, Ben Johnnie in Alaska where he meets Becca, Ben’s niece. Romeo is struck by the depths of his emotions for this beautiful, shy young girl, however, his feelings are not reciprocated.
Romeo isn’t the only man with his eye on Becca. Rain, a violent renegade, also has his sights set on her, and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants.

When Romeo discovers that Becca has vanished and Ben is dead, his gut instinct tells him Rain is responsible for this spiral of events.

Eventually, Romeo puts up a bounty to anyone who will help him search for the missing Becca.
The Tlingit Chief and his Council calls in a Sitka Indian, Marcus, who’s trained to kill.

Marcus and Romeo face a grueling journey through the dangerous shipping lanes of the Alaskan Ocean in pursuit. Will Becca be found unharmed or has time run out for the young woman?

Find out in this deadly cat-and-mouse chase from the true story of the author’s Klondike Gold Rush ancestor during the early 1900s.
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    A Klondike Gold Miner's Life
  2. Print length
    221 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    October 12, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-13
    979-8696605241
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★★★★★ A tale of love, murder and anguish - Indies Today
At the turn of the century, like so many other courageous men and women of the time, the level-headed Romeo and his quick-tempered brother trek into the Yukon during the gold rush. The brutal climate combined with rapid population increase leads to extreme challenges for the incoming migrants. When in need, Romeo and his brother befriend a skilled Tlingit man that provides them with much-needed sustenance and experience. Years pass before Romeo visits the man again, this time meeting his niece, an alluring young woman named Becca. Courting this beautiful woman, however, will prove far more difficult than Romeo expects. Cultural expectations, a hazardous shipwreck, a repugnant kidnapper, and many other impediments stand in his way. Although falling head over heels for the Tlingit woman, Romeo's honorable nature urges him to proceed with caution. Will this hesitancy help him to reach Becca's heart, or could it become his greatest regret?
For those that have only a limited knowledge of the Klondike Gold Rush, Becca's Kiss proves to be as much a history lesson as it is an exciting narrative. Derenas has taken great care to accurately depict this period fraught with dangers and desperation. Each chapter, whether it centers around hunting and skinning a moose or a public hanging, fully immerses readers in a time that is completely foreign to those living in our modern world. Covering a period of over a decade, the story moves quickly, focusing on pivotal moments in Romeo's life. As the plot unfolds, so many extraordinary and intense events occur that it is astonishing to consider that Becca's Kiss is inspired by a true story! Joyce Derenas is an author that will appeal to anyone interested in historical fiction, fascinated by compelling true accounts, or curious about the culture of indigenous peoples. A frigid-climate adventure that you won't want to miss, Becca's Kiss: Murder and a Broken Heart in Alaska is a dramatic tale about love, murder, and anguish that undeniably deserves to be told. R.C. GIBSONJANUARY 20, 2022

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Joyce Derenas writes about her Klondike Gold Rush relative and their heavily researched lives. Two months in Whitehorse and Dawson, Yukon painted a thorough decades-long life for brothers Nazaire, Raoul, Romeo and Gaudias Poulin.  Her debut novel, The Long Shot tells of the 1907 journey 4,00 miles from Quebec to Dawson to find gold and hopefully reunite Nazaire and Raoul with Stampeders Romeo and Gaudias.
Book 2 in the series, Becca's Kiss chronicles the early life of Romeo Poulin as he feels love for the first time, and deals with the prejudices of his brother, Gaudias.
In Anna's Wish, the next book, Romeo marries a complex woman, and deals with his relationship to Gaudias, his brother.
Book 4, Mary's Heart, takes us through the end life of Romeo Poulin as he remarries and starts a family. Again, the relationship between siblings Gaudias and Romeo come to a head.
The series closes with The Homecoming, which explores the life of Gaudias Poulin and his insatiable thirst for gold. This last book is set to roll out in 2022.
Her short story, WATER: The Foundering of the Princess May is a retelling of the real-life event described in Becca's Kiss but from the point of view of the Radio Engineer, Keller as he struggles with an impossible task: to send an SOS.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08L2R963N
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (October 12, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 221 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8696605241
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Joyce Derenas wrote User Guides and created Help systems for technology companies around Boston for fifteen years, retired, and then decided to have some fun. She loves the details of daily life in earlier times. She writes in her debut novel, the long shot, about Nazaire Poulin, a poor grain grower in the village of Saint Joseph of Beauce, Quebec. All of Joyce’s stories are based on the real lives of her Quebecois relatives, some pioneers to the Beauce Valley.

Decades earlier, Joyce started building her family’s genealogical tree and her love of the past grew from that interest. She has visited the village of her mother’s birth often, and has also researched in the rich collection of the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, but in the back of her heart, she had always harbored a dream to go find some string, some footprint of her French-Canadian relatives in the deep north of Canada’s wilderness-Dawson.

Once retired, a love for primary research led Joyce to the Yukon for a two-month visit, searching for the ‘footsteps’ of her grandfather and his gold mining brothers. She says, “I left for the Yukon knowing that I had a connection to four brothers and two wives, and returned with knowledge of twenty-two deceased relatives and six living relatives.”

She received her BA in English with a Concentration in Writing from Worcester State College. While there, Joyce wrote her first, short biography of Ichabod Washburn, a steel magnate and one of the founding fathers of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. This short biography remains in the permanent collection of the prestigious American Antiquarian Society.

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HonestyFirst
5.0 out of 5 stars History comes alive
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
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What a great writer Joyce Derenas is! Her historical knowledge and detail is accurate (I am French Canadian from Quebec ), and her storytelling so engaging. Read the first in this series first! There is a good flow and as I begin the 3rd book, I am sure I will enjoy the same.
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Steve Young
5.0 out of 5 stars Adventure
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2020
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Well written. Love story, mystery, and much more. I learned a lot about the gold rush years.
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Michael W. Malone
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful story about a Miner's Love
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022
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It's not the typical love story. A miner, Romeo, falls in love for a Tlingit woman. He is a gentleman and helps her and her uncle. It's a story about love that's quite different from modern syrupy notions of love. The writer does a remarkable job of bringing us into early 20th century Yukon and Alaska. Life was rough and only strong, and lucky, people survived. Will Romeo find love in his quest for Becca? For anyone interested in the history of the Gold Rush, I highly recommend this historical novel.
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Culinary Instructor
5.0 out of 5 stars a look at the past
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2022
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Depicts life in the late 1800's and early 1900*s as a miner in the Yukon. The conflict between white and native ways as well as man vs nature create drama.
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