Bear

When Rachel walked out, she took everything—the painting on the wall, the sound of cups in the kitchen, and the life Stephen Ruscot thought he knew. Adrift in Seattle, numbing himself with late nights at the Lamplight bar, Stephen is just another man trying to outrun grief. Then he meets Peter Duncan. Weathered, quiet, and carrying a wound no father should bear, Peter is counting the days until the Alaskan ice melts—and he can go hunting for the creature that killed his son. Michael Duncan was a doctoral student studying bears in a remote Alaskan valley when something went terribly wrong. Four attacks. One monster. And a father who refuses to let it end there. Drawn into Peter's obsession and haunted by his own unraveling, Stephen finds himself pulled toward the wilderness—and toward a truth far more dangerous than either man anticipated. Part grief narrative, part wilderness thriller, Bear is a story about loss, obsession, and what happens when two broken men decide the only way forward is straight into the dark. How far would you go to make sense of the things that destroyed you?