Description
Sloane Vance, a brilliant data analyst in her mid-forties haunted by a decade of emotional isolation after her high school sweetheart abandoned her without explanation, patrols the mist-shrouded North Ridge of Laurel Bend in the Appalachian hollows of West Virginia. Once the sharp-witted queen of predictive algorithms for mountain search-and-rescue, Sloane now questions her detached precision as a poor substitute for the human connection she craves, especially as she chases a phantom digital signal into the ridge’s treacherous depths, mirroring her own elusive sense of purpose.
When ex-military operative Reid Thorne, the rugged forty-seven-year-old “renegade” who shattered her heart thirty years ago, rappels into her path during a distress beacon response, their explosive reunion reignites old family blood feuds and clashing philosophies—her tech-driven grids against his instinctual grit—while shadowy saboteurs threaten a vital rescue amid ice storms and illegal mining ops. With a missing hiker’s life and their fractured legacies on the line, this second-chance spark in the wild heart of the mountains promises a pulse-pounding journey from resentful friction to profound partnership, healing wounds forged in youthful heartbreak and proving that some flames burn brightest after enduring the longest winters.
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