Snowbound

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR HARLAN HAGUE LEADS US ON A JOURNEY THAT BRIDGES THE SNOWBOUND PRESENT WITH THE STORIED PAST OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ten years after their college days at U.C. Berkeley seven friends reunite at a secluded cabin high in California's Sierra Nevada. Laughter stories and old memories fill the air-until a sudden snowstorm traps them inside with no way out.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With time to fill and no distractions their host offers a challenge: each person must share a story about an ancestor something no one else in the group has ever heard. What begins as a simple way to reconnect soon becomes something deeper.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through gripping tales of the nineteenth-century American West-of gold seekers homesteaders and trailblazers-these modern-day friends begin to glimpse the hardships hopes and quiet heroism that shaped their bloodlines. Each story stands alone yet together they create a sweeping portrait of a frontier nation and the lives that helped shape it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the fire crackles and snow piles high past and present intertwine in ways none of them expected.</span></p><p></p>