Book Description

In No Guarantees, Jennifer Jamieson Woods spins a tale of love, loss, and redemption. From a small town in Ontario, Canada, young Josephine Duckworth follows her sister to Anchorage, Alaska. It is the oil boom of the 1970s, when the men outnumber the women four to one. She falls in love with a true Alaskan man. She moves in with him into his cabin in the woods. After they spend two weeks snowed in, she realizes she is pregnant. Although he wants her to have an abortion, she is unwilling. When things go terribly wrong with her pregnancy, she begins a downward spiral that takes her to the depths of despair. She finds work that fills her soul but loses her job due to her excessive drinking. A woman in her life sees her potential, cuts her no slack, but at the same time helps to set her on a path that will lead to positive change in her life. A move takes the character Josie to Bellingham, Washington, where she finds the solution for her drinking problem as well as a means of gaining closure over her loss. You'll laugh; you'll cry along with Josie as she comes of age and confronts her tragic experience. Her perseverance comes through as she tries to make heads and tails of her big ordeal. Eventually she learns that there are no guarantees in life.