In a remote wilderness, mysterious secrets and sinister forces are unleashed in this heart-pounding literary thriller. Colin Tugdale is scheduled to die. His beloved wife, Ruby, already has. He took the government money and enjoyed his last twenty years in perfect health, never aging a day, never getting sick. With one year left, little to lose, and suspicions about the integrity of the program, Colin begins a race against time. Can he find out why some people are still alive when they shouldn’t be, and how the woman who enters his life has saved herself from an incurable disease? Colin goes looking for answers and crosses paths with a killer in this tense and thought-provoking tale.