"Carrie Ritter flees to the wilds of Alaska with a manly fugitive from society to escape her repetive life in southern California where she has experienced one too many failed relationships. When she arrives at a wood-heated cabin miles from civilization amaid waist-high October snowfall, she finds surviving in her new world bewildering and uncomfortable as she's forced to deal with sled dogs, wolves, sub-zero temperatures, blizzards and cabin fever. Eventually the rigors of wilderness survival give her a sense of self-sufficiency and she falls in love with her cabin mate and majestic landscape that defines her new life ... until the suffocating winter darkness sets in and her struggle to survive begins in ernest."--Cover