Former small-town sheriff Cork O Connor leads a desperate search-and-rescue mission into the unforgiving Minnesota wilderness in this gritty bloody adventure (Publishers Weekly) from critically acclaimed author William Kent Krueger s award-winning mystery series. The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest white-water rapids and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory a young woman named Shiloh--a country-western singer at the height of her fame--has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora Minnesota to hire Cork O Connor to find his daughter. Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con two FBI agents and a ten-year-old boy. Others are on Shiloh s trail as well--men hired not just to find her but to kill her. As the expedition ventures deeper into the wilderness strangers descend on Aurora threatening to spill blood on the town s snowy streets. Meanwhile out on the Boundary Waters winter falls hard. Cork s team of searchers loses contact with civilization and like the brutal winds of a Minnesota blizzard death--violent and sudden--stalks them.