From the publisher: "With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest." One bookseller paired this with Hillbilly Elegy as a flight for those interested in reading more about rural and Rust Belt poverty.

From the publisher: "An atmospheric, haunting novel about the Sawbrooks, a family of bootleggers with a troubled history and a deep connection to the Michigan land that binds them. The Sawbrooks have spent decades crisscrossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan and Canada to make their way as smugglers. Those hidden routes through the border's nooks and crannies are their legacy, but they no longer pay the bills. The world has changed; the resorts, with their fancy clientele, are infringing on their space, and the Sawbrooks find themselves deeply fractured, clutching at their past and the last vestiges of a once close family. Rhoda, the tough-as-nails matriarch, is caring for her dying husband while finding herself disappointed in her three adult grandchildren. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother’s will, while Buckner, the only boy, is drinking his life away. Jewell, the baby of the family, is her mother’s last hope, but when she tries to save them all in one fell swoop she becomes ensnared in a crime of escalating proportions. The Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old familial ways and the new shifting world, and face each other—and their pain-filled past—to save one of their own."

The rumored arrival of a rare lone wolf tips a community into crisis in this standalone sequel to The Trouble Up North. The locals fear for their pets and livestock, while the developers fear their construction will be halted if the feds learn an endangered species is present, and hire a poacher to eliminate the threat. But fourteen-year-old foster kid Delos sees an opportunity and partners with the notorious and feared Sawbrook family, who he knows to be firmly on the side of wild things. He hopes they’ll be on his side, too, because, like the wolf, he’s in need of protection. This atmospheric, slow-burning suspense set in Michigan’s U.P. explores safety, love, belonging, and the beauty of the wild. For fans of Peter Heller’s The Last Ranger and Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves.