Highest Point

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A daring mountaineer helps a ballerina on a mission to train for a winner-takes-all competition in the Alaskan wilderness in this sports romance.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alec Hastings</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I had a plan for everything. Gear lists weather patterns mountain routes down to the mile.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But nothing prepared me for the moment I watched my best friend fall into the abyss.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After Finn's accident I walked away from the mountains to fix up the abandoned lodge we bought as teenagers so he has a safe place to recover. The man who sold us the place is gone but his granddaughter Clementine is here and she needs a partner to enter a high-stakes wilderness competition with a cash prize she's desperate to win.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She knows design. I know survival. So we strike a deal: She helps me finish the lodge I help her win.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This year the annual competition is bigger than ever so we start training-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>hard</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. While I had my doubts initially Clementine doesn't quit even when she should. I've summited K2 and Everest but I've never encountered anything like her. She's too young too sunlit too...everything.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And the longer we work together the harder it is to pretend this partnership and my time in Alaska is temporary.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Clementine Lennox</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Newly promoted principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's what was meant to happen.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Instead I packed up my dreams and fled to the remote town where I spent my childhood summers. The only goal I have now is paying off the mountain of debt that followed me across the country.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My solution? Winning Wild Trails-with the help of legendary mountaineer Alec Hastings.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alec is enigmatic and intense and though he pushes me to the brink he's always there to catch me. His faith in me makes me feel like I still matter...like I'm not a failure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With each milestone I achieve I prove to myself that I'm more than the sum of my broken dreams-and that I'm allowed to choose myself. And I might have to. Because Alec has always chased the next adventure and with the clock ticking on our agreement I have a feeling he'll be gone when the seasons change.</span></p><p></p>