Based on the true story of a mother's arctic survival
Storm Publishing
January 2027
On Sale: January 12, 2027
Featuring: Bennett; Ada
368 pages ISBN: 1837004412 EAN: 9781837004416 Kindle: B0H3VWG7YJ Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
She is hired as a seamstress. She must survive an arctic expedition. And she does it all to save her son. Inspired by the incredible true story of Ada Blackjack.
Alaska, 1921: Ada Blackjack's six‑year‑old son Bennett is dying of tuberculosis in a Nome orphanage. When an arctic expedition offers the Inupiaq woman a seamstress position—sewing clothes for four men on a remote island—the wages could save his life. Ada accepts, despite being raised in a mission school and knowing little of the skills that might help her survive. It's Bennett or nothing.
But Wrangel Island becomes a frozen hell. As they wait for a relief ship that might never come, her male companions fall ill or disappear, forcing Ada to learn how to hunt seals, trap foxes, and fight off polar bears—or Bennett will lose his mother forever.
As starvation and scurvy ravage her body, Ada transforms herself into someone unrecognizable, driven by a love so fierce it refuses to surrender to the ice—because every day she survives is another day Bennett might live.
From the bestselling author and A Military Writers Society of America gold medal winner comes an unforgettable story that will mesmerize fans of Kristin Hannah, The Frozen River and Where the Crawdads Sing.
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