Publisher's Synopsis
One of the most dangerous things you can do in the forest is to get between Mama Bear and her cub. Equally dangerous, if not more so, is abducting a woman's child and leaving her alive to come after you. In the coastal mountains of northern California, Angela is trapped in the wreckage of her uncle's isolated house with him, her husband, and her fourteen year old daughter when a powerful earthquake brings it down. A man and woman she assumes are rescuers arrive and dig out her daughter, but, alluding to the life of hell they intend for her, they leave Angela and the others behind to a fate of fang and claw the man instigates. Angela gains her freedom when she, somehow, repels the doom that falls upon them. Then she must choose whether to free her seriously injured husband and uncle or leave them as potential bear-bait while she goes after her daughter the abductors have taken into trackless wilderness populated by bears, mountain lions, and who knows what else, and she is a city girl. She is driven to promptly make the hard choice when she considers the trail she must find and follow is fading with each breath she takes. If she can find them, and if force is the only way to gain her daughter's freedom, can she overcome the obsessive aversion to violence she has never even explained to her husband? Can she save her daughter from hell--no matter what it takes?
