Mrs. Mike

Serendipity.

I ran across a copy of Mrs. Mike at a library sale I browsed on my recent trip out west. I'd heard about Mrs. Mike years ago from a reader friend who was an enormous fan of the book, but I'd never run across the book. Until last week.

Mrs. Mike is based on the true story of a sixteen-year-old girl who travels to the Canadian wilderness for her health and meets a rugged Mountie and creates a life for herself there. And what a story it is. There's everything you would want in a story: cold, sickness, fires, trappers, friendship, and love.

I loved it. And it was the perfect read for a Wild West vacation.