Miles McEwan loves to fight fire ¡V it¡¦s his job, after all, and he does it well. But he has problems and even out in Ross River, deep in the wilderness of the Yukon, they haunt him ¡V the young man who died in agony; the woman he abandoned. Now in the dark forest around town violence is brewing. A party of hunters has encountered the elements in their wildest form. And another killer, quiet and ruthless, stalks the woodlands. As the survivors of the party are taken one by one and a fire rages, Miles goes on a desperate rescue mission, driven by love for a daughter who, until recently, was a total stranger.
