Raven's Fire

When nurse Carol persuades her guide husband Joe to take her dying, tyrannical patient Frank Talbot fly-fishing on the wild Escanaba River, a forest fire traps them in the wilderness. As Joe fights the current, a stalking cougar, and Talbot's own death wish down four treacherous waterfalls, an ancient raven-spirit and the soul-collector Pauguck watch and wait. A literary Northwoods survival tale about rage, kindness, marriage, and how we meet death.

• A modern 'Northwoods Tale' blending gritty wilderness survival with Anishinaabe spirit-world mythology—narrated in part by a hungry raven who wants the men's eyes.
• A dying billionaire who wants to die versus a poor guide determined to save him—a moral duel played out during a forest fire on a deadly river.
• Told in four rotating voices, including two forest spirits debating luck, death, and human folly.
• A hospice nurse's meditation on how we meet death, wrapped inside a heart-pounding survival thriller.

“I could have killed the fire.”

Perfect for a reader of literary and nature-driven survival fiction—admirers of Stephen King's 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon' or James Dickey's 'Deliverance'—who appreciates myth, meditations on death, and Upper Midwest wilderness.