Never Far Away

Michael Koryta

Once a wife mother and witness to a gruesome crime Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River she is determined to focus on the present on her reclaimed future but the demons of her past are relentlessly chipping away at Leah's protected hideaway.

Meanwhile in the wake of their father's untimely death Leah's children are sent to stay with her though they are desperate to return back home. They embark on a cross country homeward journey but before they reach danger finds them and it is Leah who must come out of her seclusion to search for and protect her children.

Told with the deft plotting and enthralling storytelling of a genre master these two captivating chase narratives will converge along the rugged Allagash River in the wilds of Maine where the wills morals and ingenuity of a broken family will be tested against all odds.