Down from Cascom Mountain

the long version

In Down from Cascom Mountain, Mary Hall, newly wed, brings her husband to settle in the rural New Hampshire of her youth, to fix up the house she grew up in and reconnect to the land that defined her, with all its beauty and danger. But on a day-hike up nearby Cascom Mountain, she watches helplessly as her husband falls to his death. As she struggles with her sudden grief, Mary finds new friendships with Callie and Tobin, teenagers on the mountain club's crew, and with Ben, the gentle fire watchman. All are haunted by their own losses, but they find ways to restore hope in one another, holding firmly as they navigate the rugged terrain of the unknown and unknowable, and love lost and found.