"This story was packed with danger as the characters made their way across Alaska. It was hard to set down because I was desperate to see how things were going to work out!"

-Brittany Harris McEuen, Blogger at Britt Reads Fiction

When explorer Mikhail Amos sets out to rescue a lost team of botanists in the Alaskan wild, he doesn't expect to find danger, secrets-or a woman who challenges everything he thought he knew. As winter closes in, survival may depend not just on his skill, but on risking his guarded heart.

In Alaska's unforgiving wild, secrets are buried deep, but survival isn't the only thing at stake...

Alaskan Explorer Mikhail Amos can count the number of bad decisions he's made in his life on one hand. But when he's called out on the cusp of winter to track down and rescue a team of lost botanists in the wilds of Alaska, he can't say no. It doesn't matter that every last instinct tells him he won't get the team out before winter. The scientists on the expedition are someone's father and brother. Mikhail knows what it's like to lose both of those, and he'd never wish that loss on another person.

But as Mikhail soon discovers, the team also happens to include the lead scientist's daughter, Bryony Wetherby, whose ability to survive in the wilderness and knack for drawing maps intrigue him in a way no woman ever has before.

But people on the team are carrying secrets, and Mikhail soon isn't sure what holds the most danger, the encroaching Alaskan winter, the secrets between the members, or lowering the walls he's built around his heart.

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a reimagining of Sully from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, a tale of survival in the wilderness, and a love that heals wounded hearts.