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The lives of two women -- the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission -- intersect in this gripping novel of tough-minded resilience. The lone survivor of a plane crash, seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip finds herself lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of Montana's rugged Bitterroot Range, exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and ingenuity. Intertwined with her narrative is the story of Debra Lewis, a park ranger struggling with addiction and a recent divorce who is galvanized by her newfound mission to find and rescue Cloris.As Cloris wanders mountain forests and valleys, subsisting on whatever she can find, her hold on life ever more precarious, Ranger Lewis leads a motley Fargo-esque group of rescuers to follow the trail of clues she's left behind.