Frozen Tears – Mary Ann MacAfee

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The story is about an adventurous love in Alaska. Lake Leland is a hydrologist in the remote midlands of Alaska. She is a working woman and she has a boyfriend who is an arrogant one but her family accepts him. Her life goes off well until one day she meet a native of Alaska named Elliot Weaver is a local bar named The Crusty Miner. They are attracted to each other very much and things change. She marries Elliot instead of many objections from her friends and family. But Kale and Elliot are very happy about the marriage and they wish to have a long life together. When Elliot takes her to his native place and to his family, she makes a deal with his grandfather named Ittuq who is a wolf shaman. One day they get news that Ittuq is very sick, they take an emergency plane to his native and the flight meets with an accident. Elliot dies in the accident leaving Kale pregnant and as the accident happens in a remote place, she gets lost in the snowy wilds. Later she is guided to the village by a gray wolf. She believes that Ittuq has changed into the wolf that saved her to protect her and her child. She starts loving the wolves and she will depend on the spiritual guidance if disaster comes again. The story completely takes the readers into a different world when they start reading the book.