What We Carry

Jim Buckley hasn't spoken his dead son's name in five months, and now he's walking the Appalachian Trail because standing still might kill him. A retired Pittsburgh firefighter with nothing left to lose, Jim plans to hike alone—until he meets Jolene Boone, a terrified young woman carrying a backpack full of bad gear and a secret that could get them both killed. Somewhere in the mountains of Appalachia, a drug network is hunting her. And Jim has to decide whether protecting a stranger is worth learning to care about anything again.