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 sick 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.
