An attack by unknown assailants, her husband dead, and now both the attackers and police on her trail. With her normal Alaskan life suddenly shattered by violence, Rebecca Milton's reaction is to run as far and as fast as she can. Her flight leads her deep into the subarctic mountains of Central Alaska. Depending on survival skills taught to her by her grandfather, she faces both the icy challenges cast by mother nature, and the storm that rages through her heart and mind. Yet Rebecca isn't truly alone...others have fled to the mountains with their own reasons to be hiding in the wilderness. Threads of life and death tangle around Rebecca's bid for freedom and a new beginning. The cords of vengeance and justice are woven deep into her life's unfolding tapestry....