Prologue
Fifteen years ago
Even though they’d been talking nonstop since they’d beached their kayaks, as soon as Padric and Zoe stepped into the ancient hush of Lost Souls Wilderness, they went quiet. They’d fought so hard for this chance—a hiking trip across Misty Bay…together…alone—that it seemed almost overwhelmingly exciting now that their trip had begun.
With each step, Zoe’s feet sank deeper into the thick moss of the path that led to Overlook Ridge. Up there, that was where they wanted to go, to where they could see all of Misty Bay, the vast ice fields of Lost Souls Wilderness, and even to the Gulf of Alaska. They’d been talking about it all summer, every time Padric stopped in for pizza on his way back from a fishing trip. He worked on his father’s fishing boat, while she worke
