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Dr. Tabitha Reynolds has spent her career pulling other people back from the edge—in emergency rooms, in bush clinics, in places where the medicine ran out before the need did. Surviving has never been her problem. Wanting to is another matter.

When her Cessna goes down in the Alaskan interior, no one knows where she is. She made sure of that. Then word reaches her from the life she left the one door she believed closed forever has opened—and it won’t stay open long.

Now she must cross a hundred miles of frozen plains and dense forests with winter closing in, and face everything she a marriage broken by her secrets, a grief too heavy to speak aloud, and memories that surface when there’s nowhere left to hide.

The Price of Mercy is a harrowing novel of survival without comfort, memory without mercy, and the quiet damage we carry long after the world stops watching.

352 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 9, 2027

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⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟 4.84 rounded up

🗓️ February 9, 2027

For readers who loved The Great Alone but wanted something more literary, introspective, and survival-focused.

A haunting marriage of wilderness survival and emotional reckoning when the wilderness strips away everything except the truth, and a plane crash survival story where the greatest danger may be what's waiting inside your own memories. What happens when surviving means confronting everything you wanted to leave behind?

❄️ Alaskan wilderness survival
✈️ Plane crash
🩺 Doctor protagonist
🏔️ Woman vs. nature
🖤 Grief & trauma
💔 Broken marriage
🤫 Buried secrets
🌲 Isolation
🧠 Psychological survival
🔥 Against-the-elements survival
🕰️ The past catching up with you
🌨️ Winter survival
💭 Introspective literary fiction
❤️‍🩹 Healing isn't linear
⚖️ The cost of survival


Imagine being completely alone in the Alaskan wilderness—with nowhere left to hide from yourself.

📘 What happens when the person who has spent her entire life saving everyone else suddenly has no one left to save her? The Price of Mercy places Dr. Tabitha Reynolds in perhaps the most unforgiving environment imaginable: the frozen Alaskan wilderness, after a Cessna crash leaves her injured, stranded, and alone. But this isn't presented as survival merely for survival's sake. The wilderness becomes an external manifestation of everything Tabitha has spent years trying to escape—grief, guilt, secrets, and the wreckage of a marriage—making the novel's central question less "Can she survive?" and more "What is survival worth if you don't actually want the life waiting for you afterward?" There's a vast difference between existing and truly living, and this novel explores that vastness.

The Price of Mercy was considerably more interesting than a conventional wilderness-survival novel, for me. Its most compelling idea is the symmetry between being physically stranded and being emotionally unable to escape: Tabitha can no longer outrun the landscape, just as she can no longer outrun the grief, secrets and choices that brought her there. The result promises a story in which every mile through the frozen Alaskan wilderness also becomes a mile deeper into the protagonist's own past.

And that may ultimately be the book's greatest strength: **the wilderness isn't simply something Tabitha has to survive—it is the place where survival finally forces her to reckon with what she's been surviving from.**

A gifted doctor running from grief + a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness + 100 miles of frozen isolation + a broken marriage + buried secrets = a literary survival story about whether surviving is the same thing as wanting to live.

📓 Synopsis
Dr. Tabitha Reynolds, a doctor accustomed to saving other people, deliberately disappears from her old life—only to have that escape violently interrupted when her Cessna crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. Forced to trek across hundreds of miles of frozen terrain, she must confront not only the physical dangers around her but also the grief, secrets, and fractured marriage she left behind.

🫵🏼 Read The Price of Mercy if you enjoy:
• literary survival stories
• emotionally complicated women
• grief and trauma
• secrets from the past
• atmospheric nature writing
• harsh/winter wilderness settings
• introspective story primarily focused on the protagonist's psychological and emotional journey
• stories where physical survival mirrors emotional survival

⚠️ TW/CW: if they're at all a concern for you, please check the author's site. There's material some may find triggering but disclosing it here could spoil.

Thank you to Tristen M Hannah,
Juniper & Slate, and L&C Books for the opportunity to read this gifted eARC. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own and freely given.

📖 Plot 5

The strongest element of the premise is the way the external and internal narratives are designed to reinforce one another. Tabitha isn't simply stranded in an inhospitable landscape; she's simultaneously forced to confront the emotional life she deliberately abandoned.
That gives the survival premise considerably more literary weight than a straightforward wilderness thriller.

The novel is deliberately interested in the psychology of survival rather than survival as spectacle.

How I felt reading it:
tense, claustrophobic, cringing in horror, melancholic, reflective and increasingly uncomfortable.

➕
• The juxtaposition of physical and emotional survival
• High-stakes premise
• A protagonist with significant internal conflict
• The sense that the wilderness is forcing confrontation rather than simply providing an obstacle
• Not a conventional survival story
• Emotional introspection
• Fast paced
• Protagonist who isn't perfect, does always get it right on the first try


🧵 Themes & Deeper Meaning 5
The central metaphor is almost impossible to miss: The wilderness = everything Tabitha has been avoiding.

She physically moves through an increasingly hostile environment while psychologically moving backward through her own history. The frozen landscape therefore becomes more than setting—it becomes a mechanism for stripping away distraction, denial and escape.

Major themes
🆘 Survival vs. Living
The premise explicitly asks us to distinguish between being biologically alive and actually wanting to live.

💔 Grief
Grief isn't treated simply as something Tabitha experienced in the past; it's something that continues shaping her present decisions.

🤕 Guilt and Self-Punishment
Tabitha's past tells us that her isolation isn't entirely accidental (and why). She has deliberately removed herself from her previous life and questions whether all that she's dealing with, suffering, is what she deserves—if it's her comeuppance.

🤫 Secrets and Avoidance
The wilderness creates a situation in which avoidance becomes impossible. There is nowhere to run—and eventually nowhere to hide.

❤️‍🩹 Mercy
The title itself invites questions about what mercy actually means: mercy toward others, mercy toward oneself, and whether surviving can itself become a form of punishment.

🌐 Real-world parallel
There's a particularly interesting parallel to modern conversations about trauma and survival: surviving something does not necessarily mean that someone has psychologically recovered from it. The book's description of Tabitha, someone professionally devoted to saving other people while personally struggling with the desire to continue, also creates a compelling examination of the difference between competence and wellbeing.

➕ likes:
• Thematic layering
• Symbolism
• Psychological depth
• Trauma, grief, and healing


✍🏼 Prose & Dialogue 4.5
The prose is oriented toward atmosphere and interiority. It's visceral with physical sensation - I felt the bitter cold deep in my bones, as well as the soul deep exhaustion and brutal ache of utter loneliness. Add in the psychological experience of what Tabitha experiences and endures and it's a brutally visceral read. You don't just understand those things, you feel them.

The prose is particularly well suited to the novel's literary ambitions because the wilderness functions simultaneously as physical environment and emotional metaphor.

➕
• brutally visceral prose that makes you feel the cold, the injuries, etc
• introspective exploration of grief, survival, heartbreak, and hope

➖
• Dialogue felt occasionally stilted


⏳ Pacing 4.75
This is a character-driven/plot-driven hybrid, with the survival journey providing the external propulsion while Tabitha's memories and emotional history provide the internal engine.

The premise has a built-in ticking clock—100 miles, winter closing in, increasingly dangerous conditions—which prevents the story from becoming entirely static. It serves quite well in keeping a constant undercurrent of tension. Additional tension comes as much from anticipation, deterioration, then/now reveals, and action.

Then/now format aids in building tension and suspense while adding complexity and layers.

If I hadn't fallen asleep, I'd have happily read this in one sitting because I was glued to my seat and swiping pages. It's pace is intentionally measured and I'd call it fast paced.

My only qualm about the pace was the ending. I'd have loved to see more of the after. There was some resolution that I'd have loved to see bits of. I suspect the suddenness of the ending may be intentional, and if so it's well done as it does fit. But I still wanted to see more of the after effects.

➕
• escalating environmental danger
• building psychological tension
• fast pace (without being rushed)
• then/now format done well

➖
• the ending felt a smidge sudden


❄️ Setting 5
The Alaskan interior functions beautifully here. It's richly described and vividly imagined, making for a visceral read.

The novel promises frozen plains, dense forests, winter conditions, extreme isolation, a 100-mile journey, limited resources, and the practical consequences of being stranded in remote Alaska with winter quickly approaching.

The setting isn't merely decorative. The landscape is effectively another character.

My favorite part of the setting is that it felt genuinely dangerous. Tabitha is persistently resourceful and does have some training and experience with surviving in the wilderness. But no matter how much training or experience a person has, things can, and do, still happen. Tabitha doesn't always succeed in her attempts at various survival things, she doesn't always "win" against nature, etc. And you feel the danger, the risk, the physical and mental pain of her whole journey.

➕
• setting that feels truly dangerous
• and is also beautifully described
• setting that functions almost like another character


🥶 Survival 4.5
The book has a significant advantage in that its premise requires survival to be more than generic "she's cold and hungry." Tabitha has to traverse roughly 100 miles of frozen Alaskan terrain while winter closes in, which creates genuine logistical stakes.

The biggest realism challenge isn't simply whether Tabitha knows how to build a fire or find food. It's the cumulative effects of cold, exhaustion, injury, dehydration, calories, navigation and deteriorating judgment over a long-distance winter trek.

The novel respects those cumulative consequences, which makes the survival component exceptionally effective.

💫 I'm not a survival or wilderness expert, but I love watching wilderness survival "reality" shows. 😅 From my limited, basic, knowledge, these aspects read as realistic.


👥 Character Development 5
We get a protagonist who is beautifully developed, with depth, dimension, nuance, and personality. Tabitha is flawed and now always likable, and she's also resilient, strong, and independent.

Tabitha is immediately established as a contradiction:
She saves lives for a living—but doesn't necessarily want to save her own.

That is an excellent foundation for a complex protagonist. She's also not presented as an uncomplicated heroic doctor. The premise explicitly gives her secrets, grief and a broken marriage, and emphasizes that she intentionally disappeared.

That gives the story room to explore flaws rather than simply making Tabitha admirable.
From a literary standpoint, what makes the characterization real and believable for me is that the novel allows Tabitha to be wrong, selfish, frightened and contradictory without reducing those qualities to easy explanations. Her struggle is both physical and psychological and I feel both were well explored.

➕
• flawed protagonist
• psychological complexity
• internal conflict

💫 Readers who need immediately likable protagonists may struggle with Tabitha's choices.


💕 Romance 5
This isn't a romance, it's a wilderness survival story that emphasizes survival, grief, memory and emotional damage. There is romance in it, though. We get a budding romance that turns into a marriage broken by Tabitha's secrets and scars from childhood she's still carrying.

We get romance/relationship drama interspersed with the main plot rather than romance-forward fiction.

The important question in this book isn't "Are these two adorable together?" so much as what does love look like after grief, secrecy, damage and estrangement?

The relationship material serves character development and thematic exploration more than provide conventional romantic wish fulfillment. It does so in ways that feel realistic and believable. My heart went on a full journey with these characters.

➕
• emotionally complicated relationships
• messy, adult love that feels real and believable


🌶️ Spice
Fade to black - this isn't the book if you're looking for a spicy read. We get a couple of scenes that serve the story and characters well.


📚 Read The Price of Mercy if you enjoyed these comps:

BIPOC Comp — Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

Five Little Indians follows Indigenous residential-school survivors as they attempt to rebuild their lives while carrying profound trauma, loss, and memories of what they've endured.

If you like Five Little Indians for its raw exploration of trauma, survival, grief, and the difficult process of rebuilding a life after profound loss, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for its similarly emotionally bruising look at what it really means to keep going when the past refuses to stay buried.

Queer Comp — Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Follows girls quarantined on an island where the surrounding wilderness has become dangerous, with a central F/F relationship. It's YA, speculative horror rather than adult literary fiction, so the comparison is primarily about isolation, survival, dangerous nature, queer relationships, and the psychological effects of being cut off from the world.

If you like Wilder Girls for its queer characters, isolation, dangerous wilderness, survival against the elements, and emotionally intense exploration of what prolonged isolation does to people, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for a more adult, literary take on survival, isolation, and psychological reckoning.

If you like Wilder Girls for 🌲 dangerous wilderness + 🏳️‍🌈 queer characters + 🔒 isolation + 🖤 psychological survival, then I think you'll enjoy The Price of Mercy for a more adult, grounded story about being stranded in the wilderness and forced to confront what you've been running from.

Indie Comp — Out of the Wild by Jack Hunt
If you like Out of the Wild for its plane-crash survival, unforgiving wilderness, winter setting, strained family relationship, and buried trauma, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for its similarly high-stakes journey through the wilderness and exploration of how physical survival forces old wounds to the surface.

If you like Out of the Wild for ✈️ plane-crash survival + ❄️ brutal winter wilderness + 💔 fractured relationships + 🖤 buried trauma, then I think you'll enjoy The Price of Mercy for a more literary, character-driven take on survival and emotional reckoning.


Non-Big Five Comp — The Bear by Andrew Krivak

It follows a girl navigating a vast wilderness after being separated from the only family she has known and explores love, loss, survival, and humanity's relationship with nature.

If you like The Bear for its lyrical wilderness, quiet survival, profound sense of loss, and exploration of how nature can both destroy and heal us, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for its similarly intimate portrait of one person's physical journey becoming an emotional reckoning.

Big Five Comp — The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Alaska, isolation, extreme conditions, complicated family relationships, and the constant tension between the dangers of the wilderness and the dangers people bring with them.

If you like The Great Alone for Alaska, unforgiving wilderness, emotional trauma, complicated relationships, and characters fighting to survive both the environment and themselves, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for its similarly atmospheric exploration of how isolation strips away every defense you've built around your past.

Indirect Comp — The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

This one looks very different on the surface—there's no Alaskan wilderness or plane-crash survival story—but underneath, both books are deeply concerned with what happens when someone reaches a point where merely surviving isn't enough. The emotional connection is in regret, grief, the life we might have lived, and confronting the choices and circumstances that shaped us.

If you like The Midnight Library for its exploration of regret, grief, alternate possibilities, and the question of what makes a life worth continuing, then I think you'd enjoy The Price of Mercy for its much more grounded exploration of what happens when surviving forces you to finally confront the life you've been running from.
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September 17, 2026
I loved this book! At first the multiple timelines were a little jarring, but they settled into a rhythm and pattern that woven together well. I sought out this book because of the survival story (winter in Alaska with minimal supplies), but the story of Tabitha and Darius relationship was powerful and heart wrenching at times. And adding in Tabitha's time in Syria really pulled it all together.
I feel in awe of the pain and human suffering that Tabitha went through. And the author did a great job of making it feel real and like we were there too.
I 100% recommend that you read this!
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August 27, 2026
This is one of those books that will sit with you long after you read it. It resonates with people because we can see ourselves in some aspects of Tabitha.

As more of her story is revealed through the flashbacks to the year of meeting Darius and her marriage to him, you gain more understanding and sympathy to her journey. Granted Tabitha has some serious problems and needs to work on herself, you can see life events chip away at all of that.

I found myself flying through this book because I wanted to understand what led to her actions. I wanted to figure out just what led her to the despair taking over her in the first few pages.

You go through extreme highs and lows with Tabitha throughout this entire book, and the ending will definitely surprise you.

I wish there had been some trigger warnings at the beginning to prepare you for the heavy topics covered in the story. You know she's going to struggle in nature and contend with past mistakes, but it went so much deeper than that.

Thank you to Tristen M. Hannah for an advanced copy in exchange for a review!
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Review of advance copy received from Author
September 10, 2026
I was drawn to this book by the initial description, which promised adventure, suspense, intrigue, and drama. The characters, storylines and various points of view fulfill that promise and more. The main character, Tabitha, like so many of us, is trying so hard. She's trying to maintain her relationship with Darius, her husband. Taking Infertility treatments despite her ambivalence about having children, staying connected to her medical career and the families in crisis that she works with, all while literally trying to survive a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. Her struggle to stay alive requires treating her own injuries, finding her way out of the wilderness, and using the survival skills passed down from her grandfather. The use of flashbacks was very helpful in understanding the various characters in her life and the experiences that shaped her. I was drawn to Tabby and Darius, and motivated to find out how their story ended. As a former librarian and an avid reader, I would definitely recommend this book.
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September 30, 2026
It took me longer than I wanted to read this. But once I dug in I couldn't put it down. I wish I'd kept better track of the dates but the flow of the story through each time got me back on track as if I'd read each year (time line) from start to finish without the other time lines being in between. Like my title suggests I was biting my nails through to the end, afraid she wouldn't make it back and would die with all those regrets. Like all good books I found myself wanting more in the epilog though, we spend so much time with her and her time in the wilderness then we run out of time and rush through. I would like to have had a bit more time with her going from healing to getting Sami and finally having another baby or was it another adoption. All in a a very good read that keeps you hooked because just like Tabitha, you're waiting for what's coming around the next bend. Thanks for letting me read before it was available, I hope it reaches many readers.
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September 4, 2026
The Price of Mercy - A captivating survival story
This was a book about so many things, love, loss, trust, hope, survival and family. The author did a great job weaving all of those together and made the reader feel for and care about all of the characters. The descriptions about the keys aspects of the story were great! Made the reader feel like you were there in a war zone, a hospital, or the wilderness with Tabitha as she tried to navigate her life and ultimately survive in the end. Tabitha is a character you want to see endure and the story made you want to keep reading to see how things work out for her. I read this book on my phone and the only confusing part was the timelines of all the chapters as it goes back and forth in the story, but once you start to read the chapter it is easy to follow along. I definitely recommend this book to others. Great job!
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October 15, 2026
I really wanted to like this book, and I did like parts of it. I love survival stories and stories of Polar adventure. About 1/3 of this book delves into that area. As another reviewer mentioned, there are three timelines intersecting throughout this story. I struggled with the relationship with the three periods. Related, yes. Relevant, I struggled. At times the connections seemed contrived and difficult to believe or follow. Well written? Yes, quite. I would have advised tightening the storyline and concentrating on more of the Arctic survival story. As an aside I also found that the physical trauma that the protagonist endured was a bit difficult to believe. I wonder the likelihood of someone suffering those injuries self-healing and walkin to safety, physician or not. A bit wonky there.
Overall not a bad read, just not a good fit for me.
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August 28, 2026

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The book is about woman who crashes her plan and must make her way through the Alaska wilderness in winter. She has strong wilderness survival skills from previous experience with her grandfather. The book flashes back to her past as a doctor in worn torn Syria , her meeting and marrying of her husband and her trying to survive in Alaska after a plane crash. Sometimes the back and forth is confusing.
She was abandoned as a child and has not dealt with this emotionally. She buries her feeling in her work. The negative part is how much she blames herself for things out of her control. She lies about her past instead of telling the truth. I think it was hard for her to share as she had been abandoned and did not know how to trust . Overall interesting book. Would recommend

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August 29, 2026
If you love adventure, READ THIS BOOK. I recieved an Advanced Reader Copy from the author. This is honestly one of the best books I have read this year. The level of detail in every aspect of Tabatha's adventure rings true--from the bush plane crash to wilderness survival here in Alaska, to Doctor's without borders, and pregnancy--all of it is so authentic. This is a hard to put down book, the timelines intermingle in an intelligent and interesting way, keeping the reader on the edge of their seat. The protagonist is flawed in a believable way and fights through her fears and insecurities. The ending is beautiful, heartfelt and happy. I hope this gets picked up by Reese, Oprah, Jenna or another national book club endorsement. It was a genuine joy to read.
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August 31, 2026
This is an excellent read. I received it as an ARC and was so blessed to be given the opportunity to read it and review it.
I have to admit to struggling a bit at the beginning as I was taken back and forth in time with Tabitha as I learned of the trauma and life situations she found herself in. But then, it sunk in that I was connecting to the story and how my own story weaves itself in and out of my heart and memories. It matched and it stuck with me.
Sometimes I hold off reading a book until I have room in my schedule for it. I guarantee if you pick this book up, Tabitha’s story will introduce a pause in your time to make room for all the emotions, understanding of her situation, and how it relates to your own.
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September 15, 2026
I was given an advance copy of this book for my honest review. I read about 15 to 20 minutes every night. However, when I was reading this book, I found myself struggling to remember what time it was and just how long I had been reading! Tabitha’s struggles just pulled me in and I kept wanting to know how she was going to handle every situation that was playing havoc with her! The author has done an excellent job of making Tabitha feel like she is a real person with wonderful strength and some difficult flaws. I found myself drawn to her character and pulling for her to make decisions that will have a positive impact on her life.
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September 2, 2026
I enjoyed this ARC copy of The Price of Mercy, which I received from the author. The plot goes between past and present, with multiple locations, Syria and Alaska. It addresses a number of issues, such as infertile, the ravages of war and the pressure women feel between motherhood and a fulfilling career. My favorite parts were the descriptions of Tabitha's struggle to survive the plane crash in Alaska. It was clear that survival techniques were well researched for the book. If you enjoy a page-turner put this book on your TBR list!
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September 30, 2026
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS! The character development is incredible. The plot is driven and incredibly moving. I only wish I could experience it again for the first time. This would also make an amazing movie! I can tell so much research went into this book, but the explanations don't read like a textbook. The only thing I struggled with was the timelines it was hard to keep them straight at first but I got it down pretty quickly as long as I ignored the dates and just focused on what was happening. Still a 5⭐ read for me and I highly recommend it!
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August 29, 2026
It is so rare for me to find a book that hooks me from page one, but this was an absolute page-turner from the very start. The author’s descriptive writing is phenomenal—I could visualize every single scene in vivid detail and truly felt like I was right there alongside the character the entire time. I was fully engaged every step of the way, and I’m so sad it’s already over. I'm eagerly awaiting the next novel from this author!
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September 5, 2026
While attempting to survive a harsh wilderness, Tabitha was also learning to love and forgive. She in a true sense, learned herself and found herself again. She also learned what was important. Tabitha survived trauma, mental and physical, but ended up ok. There were times that it was painful. This book is atmospheric and will cause you to lose a tear or two. I totally enjoyed it. Pick it up, you won't regret it.
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September 7, 2026
Received as an ARC with no expectation of a positive review.

This book includes a multitude of genres that any reader will enjoy. There is adventure, challenges from weather, animals, and the characters' own mental and physical being. The small amount of romance was part of the storyline.

I thoroughly enjoyed and had no clue how it was going to end. The author did an amazing job of putting you on the edge of your seat throughout.


Highly recommend.
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August 24, 2026
I loved this book because it took me one day to read it and I’m a slow sleepy reader. It was written to make the reader what will happen next. It tells the story of a young female doctor and different relationships. The fact that I am a retired RN made the story very real because of the facts that played out. Exciting, intriguing story. I received a free copy to read before publishing.
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August 30, 2026
I tore through this book (which is saying a lot because I normally never read books electronically). I do believe this is the authors debut novel and it is fantastic. I loved everything about it and simply could not stop reading. I highly recommend it.
I was sent an advance copy of this book for an honest review.
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September 8, 2026
This book was incredible and will stay with me for a long time. The characters were so flawed, and yet I was rooting for each and every one. The secondary characters ie., Habiba, Abia, Dr. Musa, and even Sami, were integral to tying the various stories together. The writing was fabulous. Please write more!
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September 30, 2026
I love the premise of this book. I wanted to be a dr who was a pilot in Alaska in high school, but much like my time for reading this last month life got in the way.
I had a hard time keeping track of the time period I was reading as there were three timelines the present day two previous time periods.
I do plan on buying this book and reading it when I have more headspace for it.
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August 31, 2026
I read an ARC of this book and I was truly sucked in and could not wait to see what happened. A quick read (I think it was because I was so involved with the story) and made you want to just gobble it up.
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August 25, 2026
The characters are well drawn and the storyline is compelling. I didn't know how it was going to end.
My only complaint is that it had to end.
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August 27, 2026
I really enjoyed this book. The intermixed storylines from past to present day were great & I really liked the characters. It is well written & a fast & easy read!!
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August 31, 2026
I enjoyed this book. It has adventure, suspense, love and family. It was an easy read and I couldn’t wait to see how it was going to end. Get this book, you’ll love it!
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September 15, 2026
This book is well written, interesting and full of twists and turns.
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