One Step Too Far By Lisa Gardner
Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.
At least sixteen hundred people have walked onto America’s public lands and never walked off. Frankie Elkin, with no badge and a hundred and twelve bucks to her name, has traded one addiction for another obsession: she works for the dead, and the dead are the only ones who’ve never lied to her.
Five hiked into Devil’s Canyon, outside Ramsey, Wyoming, for a bachelor party weekend. Timothy O’Day never made it out. His father, Martin, has refused to stop searching, season after season. First for his son. Then for any trace of him. Then, for a body to bring home. One last expedition: a grieving father, a knot of college friends doing penance, a former forest ranger, a cadaver-dog team, a Bigfoot hunter, and one sober nomad who came to find the lost.
They came to bring back a body. They found a reason to run instead.
People start dying. Something out there is patient, unhurried, and has no intention of letting the truth walk back down the mountain. Recovery becomes survival. Frankie came to heal someone else’s wounds, “because I don’t know how to heal my own.” Now she’ll be lucky to keep her own name off the missing-persons list.
Original blurb by Ashley Duongtran for Toe-Curling Tales.
Not commissioned and not publisher copy. Written for the love of the book.