WANDER

Set in the 1980s in a small rural community of Alaska, Wander is the story of Patrice “Pete” Nash, a young broadcast reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on “the slope.” As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League–educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a different kind of life—one that seems to offer everything that marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons—to end his life. By the time Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed: one man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.

Lori Tobias is journalist and writer of more than twenty-five years. The recipient of an Oregon Literary fellowship, she lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and rescue pup Mugsy.