In the StoryBreach Pass
Mathis is the only survivor. Yet he remembers bringing everyone home. No one disputes the avalanche’s toll. Mathis Delmas carries a different ascent: another route, actions still possible, an outcome in which his companions live. That memory does not ease his guilt. It gives it a direction.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Mathis saw it before he even read the paper label tied to the wire gate. A broad orange HMS carabiner, the anodizing worn away along the edge, its screw sleeve seized with whitish dust. He had known it for six years. Léon called it “the lock,” because it took two hands to close it in freezing weather. It had never belonged to Noé Perrin.Read the excerpt ↗