Call of the Wild meets Brother Bear in this epic tale of adventure, endurance, and young love. A heroic journey tested against America's last frontier. The 1909 All Alaska Sweepstakes is over. After three days of racing over icy crags, around bottomless crevasses, and through deepening snow, the spent Siberian huskies lay still. None complain. None sleep. Their watch eyes stay open. Drums of the ancestors' course through them and keep them silent when they want to howl to the Gatekeepers. One of their own is dead, their leader, Zellie. Something got her when she left the pack. The huskies instinctively know they are all prey. The war of ghosts isn't over. Young guardians, Anya and Rune, both know it. The ice storm is coming."--