A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's...

Describes the annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and the life of the first women to win the race.

After several years spent recovering from a devastating knee injury, champion musher Jessie Arnold is working to get back into shape for the Iditarod, but when she stumbles upon a corpse during a practice run down a local trail, she is sidetracked by the hunt for a killer.

Unearthing an old skeleton while rebuilding her Alaskan home, Jessie Arnold learns that the bones might belong to the victim of a serial killer from decades earlier, but after another woman's disappearance, she begins to suspect otherwise.