Lauren Clay has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq in time to spend Christmas with her family. As she reconnects with her old friends, it's clear to everyone in their rural New York town that something is wrong with Lauren. But her father is so happy to have her home that he ignores the warning signs. Lauren guides her younger brother into the glacial woods of Canada to an oil field where she believes she will teach him survival skills. What happened in Iraq to set Lauren on this path?

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