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What happens to love and loyalty when survival leaves no room for a mistake?
In A Mating in the Wilds, Ottwell Binns brings adventure and romance to the cold Canadian frontier. Help is far away, and the wilderness demands more than courage. Food, shelter, warmth and safe travel matter here. Against that pressure, attraction brings another kind of danger: feelings that do not fit the rules.
Survival, forbidden attraction and betrayal shape this story of people tested far from towns and law. Binns sets personal loyalties against open country and hard weather, where trust carries real weight. When another person can hold your life in their hands, a promise matters—and the risk of a broken one becomes hard to ignore.
What you’ll discover
- A wilderness that tests Enter a northern landscape where forests, rivers and snow are more than a backdrop.
- The demands of survival Feel the weight of basic needs when warmth, shelter and safe passage cannot be taken for granted.
- Attraction against the rules Explore a love story where unwanted feelings add pressure to an already dangerous world.
- Loyalty under strain Consider what trust means when a broken promise can put another life at risk.
- Adventure with emotional stakes Follow the pull between staying alive and facing the risks that come with love.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you like wilderness adventure, canoes and snowshoes, a love story that grows steadily between two capable people, and a mystery about an old wrong that someone has hidden for years.
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- A stranger, a rival and a broken promise
- A girl vanishes and the search goes wrong
- The river rescue and a mystery shot
- Stranded in the forest
- Fire, raft and a cabin by the lake
- Footprints, a policeman and a cunning chief
- The siege and the knife in the dark
- The chase across the ice
- A test of character, told at speed
Who’s who
- Hubert StaneA graying young man living in the northern wilds with an old Indian companion, he carries a hidden sheet of paper and wants to clear his name.
- Helen YardelyThe spirited niece of a Company governor, she longs for real adventure and finds she has the strength to meet it.
- Gerald AinleyA smooth rising man in the Company who loves Helen and will go to great lengths to win her.
- MiskodeedA beautiful Indian girl who tries twice to warn Stane of danger and asks him to leave with her.
- Dandy AndertonAn old Oxford friend of Stane, now a trooper of the Mounted Police, whose first duty is to the law.
- Jean BènardA trapper who owns the cabin by the lake and returns hoping to marry.
- ChigmokA half-breed fugitive wanted for murder, hired for a price to carry out an attack in the snow.
- Sir James YardelyA powerful Company governor touring the northern posts, who wants his niece found at any cost.
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A convict turned prospector pulls a drowning English girl from a northern river and pays dearly for it.
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A man hesitates at the sight of a flag, then beaches his canoe away from the wharf. Hubert Stane lives in the wilds and carries an old accusation.
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A stranger, a rival and a broken promise
A lean young man with graying hair paddles up to Fort Malsun, a Hudson Bay Company post, and beaches his canoe away from the wharf. He is Hubert Stane, and a flying flag warns him that an important visitor is near.
Then he sees Gerald Ainley, a polished man with a monocle, who turns white at the sight of him. Ainley tells the factor's wife that Stane served three years in prison for forgery. Stane believes he was punished for a crime he did not commit. He demands an answer, and Ainley promises to come to his camp at midnight.
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What is A Mating in the Wilds about?
It follows Hubert Stane, a man with a prison past, and Helen Yardely, a governor's niece, who are stranded together in the northern forest. Their survival, growing love and a hidden plot by Gerald Ainley drive the story.
Who is Gerald Ainley?
Ainley is a rising Company man who knew Stane in England. He wants to marry Helen, and he is the person Stane most wants to question about the old forgery that sent him to prison.
Who is Miskodeed?
Miskodeed is a young Indian woman whose name means the Beauty of the Spring. She meets Stane at Fort Malsun and twice tries to warn him of danger. Her loyalty matters a great deal later.
The author
Ottwell Binns
1872–1935 · British novelist and minister
Ottwell Binns (1872–1935) was a British novelist and minister. He wrote fiction in English during the early twentieth century. His novels include A Mating in the Wilds. He lived during the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century.
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