The Snowshoe Trail

Bill Bronson has spent his life in the northern forests, and he knows what it means when a man doesn't come back from the wilderness. So when Virginia Tremont arrives in the fading town of Bradleyburg, determined to find the fiancé who vanished years ago in the gold country of Clearwater, he recognizes something in her refusal to accept loss. She needs a guide. He needs a reason to go back into the cold. Together with her uncle, they push into territory where the forest has already claimed one man, and where the snow keeps no records of the dead. This is frontier adventure at its most elemental: a story about what the wild demands of those who enter it, and whether the human heart can survive the price of its own stubborn hope. Marshall writes with the authority of someone who understood the northern woods, layering the physical dangers of the journey with the interior landscapes of grief, longing, and the terrible beauty of a world that doesn't care whether you live or die.