ABOUT
THE BOOK

On the last stroke of November, as Nile Nightingale examines a church with a faded for-sale sign, he is startled by a gun-racked pickup barrelling down the country lane. With a sack roped to the roof, it veers past the church and comes to a spinning stop beside the cemetery. Silence, then a thud. With that sound ends the peace Nile expected to find when he fled the addictions, exhaustions, and legal problems of home by heading north, illegally, into Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. Inside the burlap sack is the bloodied body of a still breathing teenage girl. Against his better judgment, Nile resolves to treat her wounds and find those who left her for dead.