Description:
Agent Stevenson has never worked a file he couldn’t close.
He didn’t expect Kimmirut to be any different: recruit the local person with the survival skills the mission needs, keep the antibiotic moving, be back at the office in a week. He definitely didn’t expect Ayalik, who has no patience for men who think their paperwork matters out here, and even less for the idea that she needs him for anything at all.
But somewhere between the sled dogs, a blizzard that shouldn’t exist, and a warning built from stone that he can’t read and she won’t explain, Stevenson starts falling for a woman who was never going to make this easy on him.
She is, without question, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Out of a population of four hundred and twenty-six. But still. And he picked her for the mission.
Between the giant snow worms, the rabid polar bears, and the caribou people who are not, strictly speaking, caribou, there isn’t a lot of time left over for romance.
They make time anyway.
This time, love finds a way. So does something else.
Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.