Wasatch County Library

"Beginning in the spring of 1969, Huckleberry Finn inspired a question: Could you build a raft, float down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, and on the way learn something about America and its peoples? Will Bagley, a vagrant longhair and future prize-winning western historian, and his friends could, and did. Now, a half century after the adventure, Bagley tells his story."--Provided by the publisher.

When a loner, a jock, an outsider, and an Internet influencer go river rafting together for a school assignment, the four strangers end up sharing their secrets and relying on each other when the trip turns dangerous.

Lisa Vaughn is swept away by the rapids of the Wild River while attending a corporate retreat in a remote part of Alaska, and when lodge owner Mitch Braxton searches for Lisa, who is his former lover, they end up deep in the wilderness, where they are forced to set aside their feelings to survive the brutality of nature and a killer who is on the loose.

River guide Madeline Kruse has always preferred the nomadic life over a settled home. On the run from the long-standing pain of a missing father and critically ill mother, Madeline's wandering takes her to a corner of the West time has passed over. In the tiny town of Junction, she runs headlong into a community with challenges of its own. Through alfalfa farmer Chris Sorensen and a drama unfolding deep in the Utah backcountry, Madeline is drawn in...