Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.

Shiloh, a country music singer, disappears in the Boundary Waters, and as a small-town sheriff leads the investigation, cold wintry deaths await the many searchers.

"When a sleazy reality television show takes over Ethan's arts academy, he and his friends concoct an artsy plan to take it down"--

June is starting at her sixth school in four years when she meets Wes, who has just broken up with a girlfriend, and although they do not share an instant or intense connection, attraction turns to love and they wonder where it will lead.

Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.

Jenny MacPartland's fairytale romance and sudden marriage turns into a nightmare on Erich's vast Minnesota farm where secrets from the past threaten both her life and the lives of her children.