Silent Battle

A man walks into the Canadian wilderness to escape himself. What he finds there is a woman and the truth about what he's become. Tom Gallatin is a lawyer with a drinking problem that has cost him everything that matters. He's come to the frozen north not to hunt, but to disappear into the blankness of the woods and outrun his own weakness. Instead, he finds Jane Loring, a debutante lost in the same white expanse, carrying her own burdens. What passes between them in that lawless landscape should ruin them both. A transgression, fueled by drink and desperation, crosses a line that cannot be unspoken. But here, in the silence of the snow, something unexpected begins: the first fragile stirrings of redemption. Months later, they meet again in the polished halls of New York society. The question becomes whether forgiveness is possible, whether two people broken by a single night can find their way back to each other. Gibbs writes with unsentimental precision about addiction and masculinity, about the violence we do to those closest to us, and the excruciating work of becoming someone worth being.