Clearing in the Woods - Paperback

Roberta escapes her humdrum middle-class existence and the persistent ache of her dead mother's secrets by fleeing to Alaska. Having abandoned everything she'd spent her life building, Roberta remakes herself in another place, doing anything other than responding to the demands of her self-absorbed husband, her entitled kids, and her Pottery Barn home. Taking her first job since college, and a small room above a tourists' shop, she contemplates new vistas. She never expected, however, to find romance in the form of a handsome federal agent involved in murder and mayhem.And it is murder and mayhem, and the discovery of other's secrets, that causes Roberta to run for her life into the Alaskan wilderness...