The Advanced Reader’s Copies of White Hell arrived on Saturday. I mailed out three copies to friends and fellow wordnerds around the country. One copy lives on my husband’s nightstand.

His reading is one that means the most to me as he supported me through graduate school and while I spent the past three months polishing and editing. In some small way, I wish I could give him a happier book full of big adventures. “White Hell” isn’t about big moments, but finding strength and hope in the darkest times. So maybe I gave him the book I truly believe in.