Winner of the 2021 Willa Award for Historical Fiction
In 1941 Anna Harker is attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the gold bearing hills bordering the Alaska Range. As she lay dying on the tundra, Anna relives the major events of her Alaskan life while searching for what led to the attack. When Anna’s lover, Wade Daniels, learns of the deaths of Anna’s husband and their hand, he rushes to the hills to look for Anna and hunt the murderer. Years later Billie Sutherland steps into a community still haunted by the murders. Plagued by her own ghosts, Billie fishes into the past, opening old wounds and discovering secrets that enable her to put together pieces that eluded past attempts hindered by seclusion and interrupted by war.
Published by the University of Alaska Press (The Alaska Literary Series), 2020. Available at amazon.com, the alaska.edu/uapress/ powells.com, barnesandnoble.com or orders@press.uchicago.edu