Ellis Black will live and die in his family cabin. That is the truth of his life until he returns from a two-day trading trip to find his loved ones slaughtered, their cold bodies sitting at the supper table, and their eyes hollowed out from their skulls. In his rampant search for answers, he finds a note resting under his father’s whiskey that For the rider we missed. We are headed north. With nothing left but an empty home, the boy heads in the direction of his family’s killers, where he faces an even harsher enemy than mankind in the wild terrain and the bitter winter of an unknown land. When the Snow Melts is a genre-bending, precautionary tale about lust for revenge. In his fourth novel, L.H. masterfully captures the essence of a time when men and women roamed free. When every second spent, was done so pondering one’s survival.