When a Hollywood-handsome Santa Fe art dealer pursues Shirley Loomis, an out of shape, rural Oklahoma widow, she thinks she must be leading a charmed life. Monty Aiello not only awakens a sensuality Shirley didn’t know she had, but he can’t wait to promote her unique paintings of the plains people – works she has thrown herself into since her first husband died.
But then Aiello takes her on a belated Alaskan honeymoon, three weeks in the wilds with just the two of them and a wilderness guide. Out of the blue, disaster strikes. Is it a horrible fluke of nature? Or part of a sinister plan?
Left for dead, both with horrific injuries, Shirley must keep herself and Darrell, their guide, alive. Using his military survival skills and every trick she can remember from farm life, they fight to find their way out of the wilderness.
Leaning on one another to survive, Darrell and Shirley form an unspoken bond. If they can make it back to civilization, and if they can find Aiello, their revenge will be nothing less than cold, lethal, and righteous payback.
Written by the author of Crimes of Redemption, Oklahoma’s Book of the Year in Fiction, 2013.