** Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award **

Sam Westin is working near Olympic National Park as a wildlife biologist when an explosion and fire destroy the tranquility of the wilderness. When the blaze is extinguished, a body is discovered in the embers. It’s a young woman from the park’s summer trail crew—and she’s barely clinging to life. Sensing something sinister, Sam starts asking questions. Who started the fire? Do these events have something to do with an old gold mine? Is the recent sighting of an illegal bear hunter just coincidence? Sam wants the answers—but someone else wants her out of the way before she finds them...

Readers have compared this series to Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon mysteries and to C.J. Box's early Joe Pickett series.

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