"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes
a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the
apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds
of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a
young girl who has thawed from the ice alive"--
From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a
harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the
Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand
the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of
miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has been
thawed from the ice alive.
Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most
esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her
successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in
the shadow of her twin brother, Andy, an accomplished climate
scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland's barren
coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully
ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is
inconsolable--and disbelieving. She suspects foul play.
When Wyatt, Andy's fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a
scientific impossibility---a young girl frozen in the ice who
thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands--Val is
his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North to meet this
girl, and try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to
communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the
girl's speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and
journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brother's
death.
The moment she steps off the plane, her fear threatens to
overwhelm her. The landscape is fierce, and Wyatt, brilliant but
difficult, is an enigma. But the girl is special, and Val's
connection with her is profound. Only something is terribly
wrong; the child is , maybe dying, and the key to saving her
lies in discovering the truth about Wyatt's research. Can his
data be trusted? And does it have anything to do with how and why
Val's brother died? With time running out, Val embarks on an
incredible frozen odyssey--led by the unlikeliest of guides--to
rescue the new family she has found in the most unexpected of
places. From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle
comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape
of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to
understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures
hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl
who has been thawed from the ice alive.
Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most
esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her
successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in
the shadow of her twin brother, Andy, an accomplished climate
scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland’s barren
coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully
ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is
inconsolable—and disbelieving. She suspects foul play.
When Wyatt, Andy’s fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a
scientific impossibility—a young girl frozen in the ice who
thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands—Val is
his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North to meet this
girl, and try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to
communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the
girl’s speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and
journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brother’s
death.
The moment she steps off the plane, her fear threatens to
overwhelm her. The landscape is fierce, and Wyatt, brilliant but
difficult, is an enigma. But the girl is special, and Val’s
connection with her is profound. Only something is terribly
wrong; the child is , maybe dying, and the key to saving her
lies in discovering the truth about Wyatt’s research. Can his
data be trusted? And does it have anything to do with how and why
Val’s brother died? With time running out, Val embarks on an
incredible frozen odyssey—led by the unlikeliest of guides—to
rescue the new family she has found in the most unexpected of
places.