Heartwood (A Read with Jenna Pick): A Novel
📚 Why We Recommend ItTwo hundred miles from the end of the Appalachian Trail, experienced hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes into the Maine wilderness. All that remains are her fragmented letters to her mother—raw, poetic scribbles that capture her fight against the elements and her quiet struggle to hold on to hope.
What follows is a search that unfolds like a whispered secret: Beverly, a Maine State Game Warden with thirty years of tracking lost souls, navigates the dense woods, knowing panic is deadlier than starvation; Lena, a 76-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement home, becomes an unlikely armchair detective, piecing together clues from afar. As their stories converge, Valerie’s disappearance starts to feel less like a accident, more like a puzzle with edges sharper than thorns.
Amity Gaige weaves suspense and tenderness into every page, turning the wilderness into a mirror for the human heart. This isn’t just about finding a missing hiker—it’s about the many ways we get lost in life: in grief, in lies, in the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be. Dive into Heartwood, and let the forest’s silence wrap around you. By the end, you’ll realize: sometimes the hardest thing to find isn’t a person… it’s the truth we’ve been hiding from ourselves.
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