Publisher's Synopsis
A powerful earthquake leaves Angela and her family buried in the wreckage of her uncle's collapsed house in California's mountainous northwest. While still buried with her husband and uncle, she is forced to watch a pair of would-be rescuers take her fourteen-year-old daughter away as they allude to the hellish life they plan for her as their new baby-maker. But the abductors make a serious mistake; they leave Angela alive to come after them. After Angela struggles with a bear to secure her own freedom, the life-long city girl must choose between digging out her husband and uncle, both seriously injured, or going into bear and mountain lion populated wilderness after her daughter's abductors. Agonized, she leaves the men she loves as potential bear-bait and, accompanied only by one small dog, and armed with a rifle she doesn't know how to use, she strikes out on a trail she can't distinguish and that is fading with each breath she takes. But, even if she can find them, and if force is the only way she can gain her daughter's freedom, can she overcome her strong opposition to violence that she has never even explained to her husband? What will she do - what won't she do - to save her daughter?
