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Descent, January 2015
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Algonquin
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
384 pages
ISBN: 1616203048
EAN: 9781616203047
Kindle: B00KNCWLO8
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The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the
Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last
summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For
eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the
ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope
that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a
damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother,
Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns,
the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as
suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of
nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines
or seen
on TV.
As their world comes undone, the Courtlands
are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why
weren’t they more careful? What has happened to their
daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin’s
disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is
the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down
increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that
continues to bind them together are the questions they can
never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a
family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop
fighting for her life?
Written with a precision
that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each
member of the family searches for answers, Descent is
a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche
toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the
arrival of a master storyteller.
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