Seattle green

When the steamer Continental sails into Puget Sound in the spring of 1866, it carries a precious cargo: mail-order brides who've pledged their futures to men they'd never met. Among them is Maddy Douglas, a beautiful, headstrong, rebellious fifteen-year-old determined to leave her painful memories behind and build a family and a fortune in an untamed wilderness. So begins the Blanchard dynasty, and an obsession shared by three generations of Blanchard women; an obsession with the Seattle land known as Caleb's Bluff that for the next century will divide wife from husband, mother from daughter,…