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Weinstein Books
February 2015
On Sale: January 27, 2015
Featuring: Maj; Frederika; Marit
ISBN: 1602862524
EAN: 9781602862524
Kindle: B00NP8MGYW
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Historical | Fiction
Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maj, her husband Jan-Erik and her
daughters Frederika and Marit arrive from their native
Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put
down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them
looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms
over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the
lives of those who live in its shadow. While herding the family’s goats on the mountain, Frederika
happens upon the mutilated body of one of their neighbors,
Eriksson. The death is dismissed as a wolf attack, but Maj
feels certain that the wounds could only have been inflicted
by another man. Compelled to investigate despite her
neighbors’ strange disinterest in the death and the fate of
Eriksson’s widow, Maj is drawn into the dark history of
tragedies and betrayals that have taken place on Blackåsen.
Young Frederika finds herself pulled towards the mountain as
well, feeling something none of the adults around her seem
to notice. As the seasons change, and the “wolf winter,” the harshest
winter in memory, descends upon the settlers, Jan-Erik
travels to find work, and Maj finds herself struggling for
her family’s survival in this land of winter-long darkness.
As the snow gathers, the settlers’ secrets are increasingly
laid bare. Scarce resources and the never-ending darkness
force them to come together, but Maj, not knowing who to
trust and who may betray her, is determined to find the
answers for herself. Soon, Maj discovers the true cost of
survival under the mountain, and what it will take to make
it to spring.
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