In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse : his father, who has fallen throug... (more)
In an isolated cabin in an Arctic wilderness, 14-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse : his father, who has fallen through the ice on the lake outside and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then, out of the Arctic darkness comes a stranger : a terrifying giant of a man claiming that Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold -- and threatening awful violence if Sig doesn't reveal the gold's whereabouts. Sig knows nothing about the gold, but he does know that there's a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin's storeroom -- a gun that his father had said would protect him, but which his mother had abhorred. (less)