Wounded Mountain

Jewel Bergsson knew she had screwed up. She fled a bad situation and an unrepentant husband; but her new life in an adopted country brought a different kind of anger. Mark Langholm needed to escape the constant deadlines, fraught negotiations and crafty manoeuvers. The young lawyer took his foreign adventures in neat manageable doses - spinning the wheels over crumpled land; skimming the culture; watching the people without embracing their reality. Life in the Andes was difficult. If an animal died unexpectedly the villagers brought their complaint to Marcela's father, the schoolteacher. His attempts to help them brought his family into collision with something on the sacred mountain so powerful they hardly understood what it was capable of.