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As Traudi prays for her family's return, the local mountain rescue team receive an emergency call. Leo Hirsch, the group's leader, is battling a loss of his own and finds the mission a welcome distraction, little knowing that this rescue will turn out to be like nothing he has encountered before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of Born Under a Million Shadows and Aphrodite's War , this haunting thriller charts the frozen rivers of the mountains as they deliver up the mysteries of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* * * Andrea Busfield was born in Warrington, England, and worked for UK national newspapers for 15 years before leaving for Afghanistan where she worked as a civilian editor for a NATO hearts-and-minds publication. Whilst in Kabul, she wrote her first novel, Born Under a Million Shadows , which was published in 2009 by Transworld and sold to 18 territories. 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