Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a
teenage girl's attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar
Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.
The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more
at home with trees overhead than a roof.
So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of
partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her.
But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend
with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night,
stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine.
Morning brings the realization that she's alone--and far off trail. Lost
in undisturbed forest and with nothing but the clothes on her back,
Ashley must figure out how to survive with the red streak of infection
creeping up her leg.