Katherine Mary Flannigan

Sixteen-year-old Katherine is the main character, beginning her coming of age journey as a teenager who travels from Boston, Massachusetts to the wilds of the Great Northwestern Territory of Alberta, Canada. She heads off on her journey with a blind courage, a sense of adventure, a desire to experience worldly events, an opinion of life as a childhood fairy tale, and a young impressionability. Her teenage mind is quick to judge the outer appearance of other people, places and things. In the beginning, she is like clay that is not yet sculpted.

Katherine finds she is attracted to Sergeant Mike Flannigan. He is physically attractive to her yet she acts stubbornly and defiantly against any orders he gives her. She is, in essence, flirting with him. She naively thinks her destiny is her own. She thinks she has control over more than she really does. At...