Eighteen-year-old Caitlin and her fifteen-year-old brother, Sean take off for a morning run in the glorious Rocky Mountains. Caitlin never returns. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning - is the beginning of the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life? In the weeks and months that follow, hope leads to disillusionment, and each of them--father, mother, son--withdraws into emotional isolation, individually assessing the blame and assuming the responsibility for their collective loss. -- From the publisher.

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited" -- Reverse of title page.