The Sawtooth Winter Rescue
A Mountain Man and a Greenhorn Hunt the Lost Party

About this book:

The Sawtooth Range doesn't negotiate. In November 1846, it buries mistakes under fifty feet of snow and freezes the breath in a man's lungs before he can scream. Jonah Thorne has spent twenty years reading the mountain's moods, burying his partners, and surviving the greed of Boston trading houses that treat trappers like expendable inventory. When Rutherford Vance—arrogant, soft-handed, and flashing gold—stumbles into Miller's Hole demanding a guide to find a lost party trapped in the Divide, Jonah sees everything he despises: the company that killed his best friend, the ignorance that kills greenhorns, and the money that can't buy survival.

But Vance's party includes a nineteen-year-old girl who didn't choose this death trap, and the storm sliding off the peaks doesn't care about blame. Two hundred dollars in gold won't keep a man warm, but a Hawken rifle, a lifetime of reading wind and snow, and a mountain man's stubborn refusal to let the wilderness win one more might. Jonah didn't ask for this hunt. The mountain doesn't ask permission. And the dead don't stay buried when the wind howls through the Sawtooth Shadow.

From the author who brings the 1840s Rockies to life with the smell of woodsmoke, the bite of forty-below, and the weight of every choice carved in frost—*The Sawtooth Winter Rescue* is a relentless survival thriller where the only law is the mountain's, and the price of redemption is paid in blood, ice, and the ghosts you carry.