A Winter Runaway is an 8,000-word short story set near
Paxton, the same fictional town in northeastern Ontario that
appears in the novel,
The Binbrook Caucus.
When high-school student Chaco Geller vanishes during a blizzard on his father's stolen Ski-Doo, teacher and coach, Donald Cameron, teams up with rookie constable, Orien Sclater, to investigate. Neither is prepared for the horrifying truths at the heart of Chaco's disappearance.
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