Stokeland.
Seeking answers in the cold tundra of the Arctic North, the Stokeland folk are drawn together by the power of one strange, unsettling word - Quilaq ..
Hettie and Ernest, driven by hunger.
Jack and Connor, bound to each other and to a shared life they cannot fulfill.
Frank, teller of tales.
Gerry, the ancient trapper who has spent too long sleeping in the snow.
Angie, barmaid, too fond of the drink she serves.
It is a wonder that Stokeland has any inhabitants at all; but it does, over a hundred souls.
It sits at a fork between two roads, one a thick, commercial highway bedeviled by ice for ninety percent of the year; the other a stripped, frozen weave of a road, impassable for ten months out of twelve and huddled beneath wedges of brilliant white snow.
Stokeland
