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Alone on the Shield: A Novel

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A past love. A present reckoning. A wilderness that tests them both.

I hope you get drafted and you go to Vietnam and you get shot and you die there! Those words, spoken in anger, ended Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender's 1960s college romance. Now, forty years later, they reconnect, drawn by a shared passion: solo canoeing in Ontario's Quetico wilderness.

They decide to meet on a remote island, but old wounds and new challenges quickly surface. As they confront their past and the raw beauty of ...