Random House

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a bizzare, amazing place called Loon Lake.

Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.

Remarrying several years after the death of her first husband, Isabel Green finds her new marriage a difficult one, and she struggles to make it succeed while coping with her growing committment to her job as an environmental advocate.