When Tessa Pickard found the note amongst her father's possessions, instinct told her that this had been responsible for his suicide, not the professional disgrace that had ruined his career as a mountaineer and instructor. The note was cryptic, anonymous, and bore a Norwegian postmark. Tessa promptly set out for Norway, determined to trace the anonymous letter-writer, but unprepared for the drama she was to uncover -- or that compelling Max Hyerdal, whom she met on board a Norwegian ship, was to change her whole life.