The Last Boat Before the Dark

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Twenty-four-year-old Tova Lindqvist was the youngest musher ever to win the Norrsken Thousand. Then a whiteout, one bad decision, and a lie told on camera cost her everything: sponsors, team, two fingertips, her name. She takes the last supply boat of the year to Kaldsund, an Arctic settlement of 211 people facing three months without sun, and introduces herself with her mother's surname. Aleq Kleist reads the ice there. Since the morning his brother went through it, he has not signed a single log as safe, and has not gone out. Between them: a half-blind old lead dog, a yard of forgotten huskies, a nine-year-old with plans, and a dark that hides nothing for long. Kaldsund doesn't ask what you did. It only asks what you'll do tomorrow.