Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's Wolverine River. Forrester leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant. Adventurous in spirit, she does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks. What she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage and fortitude of her that it does of her husband. From the author of The Snow Child