In the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thomas Findlay and Emily Wells dig post holes for a cabin on that very hill and unearth a human bone. The discovery shatters their struggle for stability and their attempt to start their lives over, propelling the couple toward their own tragedy as their story intertwines with one that unfolded in 1927, where the hill they hope to build on was the site of love, loss, and deadly violence.
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Sarah Birdsall has lived in Alaska most of her life, with many of her formative years spent in remote parts of the state. She is the author of the award-winning novels The Red Mitten (Mc Roy & Blackburn, 2006), and Wild Rivers, Wild Rose (University of Alaska Press, 2020), the latter of which was the 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Alaska Women Speak, and Cirque. She is a Rasmuson Foundation award recipient. A former award-winning journalist, she has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and lives in her hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska.