The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney
published 2007
384 pages
A seventeen-year-old boy disappears the same day his mother, Mrs. Ross discovers the scalped body of his fur-trader friend in a neighboring cabin. The murder brings newcomers to the settlement including a Hudson Bay Company representative, and a tracker who is looking for a mysterious archeological fragment. A half-Indian trapper accompanies Mrs. Ross on a long trek through the frigid 19th-century Canadian frontier in search of her son, a journey that produces a deep, if unlikely bond between them.
