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Destiny

Gordon Ryan

Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1996

  • Gordon Ryan: Author
Novel, Historical Fiction
Mormons--Fiction;Family--Fiction.
Just twenty years old and running from the law, brash Tom Callahan flees Ireland for a new life in America. On board the steamer Antioch, he meets Katrina Hansen, a beautiful Norwegian young Mormon woman who is on the way to Utah with her family. Gordon Ryan's first historical novel, is the story of the unlikely romance between a Mormon and a Catholic in the final years of the nineteenth century. Weaves in historical events such as the Alaskan gold rush and Utah's statehood celebration in 1896. [publisher blurb]
BX 8688.3 .R954s 1996
354p.

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