Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family's estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day a poacher was shot on estate land has come between them.

An invitation to accompany her father to Canada is a chance for Evelyn to escape her limited existence. But once there, on the wild and turbulent Nipigon river, she is shocked to discover that their guide is James Douglas, Ballantyre's former stable hand, and once her friend. He disappeared the night of the murder, charged with the shooting.

Evelyn never believed that James was guilty - and her father's role in the killing has always been mysterious. What does he have to hide? In the wild landscape of a new world, far from the constraints of polite society, the secrets and lies surrounding that night are finally stripped away, with dramatic consequences.

This is my third book by Sarah Maine - so far I really liked only one - "Women of the Dunes".
The other one was "The House between the tides" which was a no.
So - this one... it sounded interesting, but.. it wasn't...
It was so boring. So many descriptions of the countryside.. if I'd want to know more about that, I'd read a book about it. Which leads me to another point - if I would like to broaden my knowledge of English adjectives - just the first ten pages would be more than I'd ever need.
And why was Evelyn thought to be progressive? She has some ideas, but mostly she "retreats again into herself" as Larsen ever so often observed.
Well, so the book dragged along until nearly the last chapter where it gained a bit speed. But that was too late for me...