WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION 2025 In the Black Mountains of Pakistan the
discovery of an unconscious unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The
head of the village is beset with problems and failing to find his way out. His daughter
receives a love letter and incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster but nobody
is listening. Trapped in terrible danger a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a
soldier's life. Beaten by her addict husband for bearing him only daughters a woman is
pregnant again - but can this child save her? As the elements turn on the village can
humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
