When Natalie Embers escapes the big city for the sleepy town of Dusty, she is introduced to the Winter Man. Life quickly takes several twists and turns, and it becomes obvious that her troubles have followed her. Is the Winter Man the only one that can set it right?
Riley's struggle is real. Trying to do everything right by those he feels are under this “protection” and stopping those trying to eliminate him and his protectees. It's not only his story of personal change being told but of those he interacts with. How he deals with the conflicts thrown at him and how his decisions affect those around him. And the consequences some will face for going against the code.
Amid expensive wine and whiskey, death squads, dirty cops, revenge, and an experiment in centrifugal force, Riley Wright finds himself on a journey of self-reflection and change while battling his past — a past he is learning to put right. He must reconcile the person he once was and the sordid actions of his past, with the man he needs to be to survive.
The Winter Man is a fairly new old wives' tale in Dusty, a legend built around a real person that gives bedtime stories credibility. Thought to be an isolationist living off the land of the relentlessly hard mountain, it was said that by the light of the full moon, he took badly behaved children out of their beds and ate their livers. A cautionary tale for those not making their beds or eating their broccoli.
How many of these stories are truth, and how many pure rumor?
