**Winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction
(Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association
Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a
fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely
20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice "Pete" Nash, a young broadcast
reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband,
Nate, accepts a job on "the slope." As Pete pursues the next big
breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in
town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the
family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a
different kind of life - one that seems to Pete to offer everything
marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren
has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons - to end his life. By the
time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed. One
man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.