Leaving Blythe River

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but hes barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly its up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, hes his fathers only hope. With the help of three localsa fearless seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skillshe heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethans world. Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him wondering if hes been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has become about more than finding his dad. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of nature revealing human naturethe trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to forgive his fatherif he finds him alive.