​Hundreds of years ago global warming melted the ice caps and flooded the world, leaving a remnant of humanity. When Max encounters Trudie in the half submerged ruins of Seattle, he slowly grows to understand what has driven her inward since the days they played together – her mother’s death, abuse at the hands of her father, her desperate attempts to prevent her sister being drawn into the same cycle of destruction. Deeper and stranger is the way she knows what moves in the forest around her, the moments in which she seems to gaze into his heart. As wolves begin to frequent the hills around the village and her father’s violence drives her increasingly into the forest, each time he is drawn to her aid by a compulsion he cannot explain.
As a reader put it: 'What a piece of writing. I was completely immersed. I was with Max, Trudie, and Tammi every step of their dangerous, challenging and strangely enlightening journey, experiencing their pain, the cold, the heat, the hunger; the guilt, the deep and transcendent way they can communicate.'