Cold Water—Warm Hearts

Mia's introduction to Michigan's Upper Peninsula is brutal: her brutal husband Aleks and the 55-degree fall-cold Lake Superior waters are trying to kill her. Then, someone pulls her out.

A floatplane pilot named Benjamin, leads to a family with a safe place to stay, including a loving mother, grandmother, and friend, a dutiful deputy, and a caring coffee shop owner—a network of people who won't let Mia or Leanne, the young woman she’s trying to vanish—face danger alone.

Found family isn't a metaphor here. It's how the small town of Ontonagon works.

It isn't charity either. It's how people survive in a place where winter can kill you.

Midwest-nice on steroids, but not because they know you. It’s because that's what you do when someone needs help . . . and in this case, to stay alive.

Ever been that person? The one who showed up? Or had community become a character in your story?

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