Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival

by Nowick Gray

Overview

A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC's remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm pushes Will to the brink of deadly choices, at fate's mercy.

Their idyll darkens with Will's hellish predicament, as the seventh dream door crashes shut. He must act under agonizing pressure, and the disorientation of clashing realities. Will he find the strength and wisdom to overcome the odds and avoid disaster?

Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass breaks the mold of linear narrative by splitting its ending into multiple, coexisting plot threads, or timelines, twisting away from a nightmare hallway of seven doors. The story plays out a mystery of magic realism against the backdrop of vast natural beauty in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia (think Groundhog Day in the heart of the Canadian wilderness).

Caught in the strands of a deadly time-loop, Will must face the choosing of a successful adventure, time after time until he gets it right.

Novella, 106 pp.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164348458
Publisher:	Nowick Gray
Publication date:	09/20/2015
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	531,605
File size:	319 KB

About the Author

The core story in Rendezvous is a real-life adventure my family and I experienced in 1987 at Jumbo Pass. (The cover image is a painting of the alpine setting, by a local artist.) The successful outcome of that adventure, with its numerous challenges and pitfalls, allowed me to muse on a variety of "what-if" scenarios stemming from the actual story line - most of them disastrous. In the paranormal sense, and structurally in the novella, I conceived of these as alternative timelines or parallel realities. Somehow karmically the other characters and I "chose" the one scenario leading to our survival.