Former small-town sheriff Cork OConnor leads a desperate search-and-rescue mission into the unforgiving Minnesota wilderness in this gritty, bloody adventure (Publishers Weekly) from critically acclaimed author William Kent Kruegers award-winning mystery series.

The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloha country-western singer at the height of her famehas disappeared.

Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire Cork OConnor to find his daughter. Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con, two FBI agents, and a ten-year-old boy. Others are on Shilohs trail as wellmen hired not just to find her, but to kill her.

As the expedition ventures deeper into the wilderness, strangers descend on Aurora, threatening to spill blood on the towns snowy streets. Meanwhile, out on the Boundary Waters, winter falls hard. Corks team of searchers loses contact with civilization, and like the brutal winds of a Minnesota blizzard, deathviolent and suddenstalks them.