White Heat

Set on Canada's remote Ellesmere Island, this novel of suspense and intrigue follows Edie Kiglatuk, an Arctic guide by trade, half Inuit/half white by birth, who is forced to deal with several murders that conceal a plot to despoil the land she so loves. M. J. McGrath's portrait of Inuit society is rivaled only by Edie's thrilling adventures and the lush depiction of a starkly beautiful terrain.

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