Publisher's Synopsis
Narrated by Lynn, a 23-year-old who was 12 when war and flu struck and she, her uncle, mother and brother left their town in Alaska for the remote Yukon territory. Since then she's grown up in isolation, a surly neighbour 3 miles away the only human contact outside her family. When she runs into a stranger and his dog while out hunting one day everything changes. Jax stays with them while recovering from an injury and when, a week later, a group of 4 men show up looking for him he kills three of them and runs off to catch the 4th before he can bring more men back. Lynn and her uncle Jeryl go with him and Jax explains that they are bad men who want to run experiments on him because of his superhuman strength. Their eventual confrontation with the group of men changes their small family outpost forever.
