Powder Burn

Sam Blackett will risk everything to get what she wants. And what she wants is to investigate and write about the big, important stories that will change the world. Right now, she's alone in a soulless internet cafe in a remote Asian city, and she's unpublished, unhappy and broke. And then Pete Halland blows into her life and offers to rescue her ambitions - head for the mythical Powder Burn mountain and write history. The problem? Sam has to set out on a journey to a secret destination deep in the Himalayas, with three half-crazy men that she only met the day before. If she throws in her lot with Pete and the team it could save her dream - but is it worth the risk? Of course it is, and soon Sam is up to her neck in snow and the weather is the least of her problems; lost in a secretive Himalayan kingdom with an - apparently - magic sword and a simmering and potentially bloody revolution. The father she lost to the war in Iraq was a marine though, and he taught her a few tricks in the Vermont backcountry that might just get her out alive.