And with both eyeing the same prize, it’s a romance that seems destined for failure. Their flourishing romance is one that will never be allowed. And if she can’t prove herself on this expedition with her professor father, the only adventures she may have to look forward to are marriage or spinsterhood.Īs their paths cross and the rivalry between their fathers becomes more intense, Samuel and Rachel are pushed closer together. For Rachel Cartland this find could be her ticket to a different life, one where her loves of science and adventure aren’t just relegated to books and sitting rooms. Some legends call it the Black Beauty, with its bones as black as ebony, but to seventeen-year-old Samuel Bolt, it’s the “rex,” the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling, temperamental archaeologist father in the history books.īut Samuel and his father aren’t the only ones after the rex.

Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centuries-buried rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the late nineteenth-century world has ever seen.

Thrill of the chase torrent