Dan Smith

December, 1930, Ukraine. After the horrors of war, Luka wants a quiet life with his family. But everything changes when a little girl vanishes. Luka is the only man with the skills to find the stolen child. And though his toughest enemy is the man he tracks through the harsh winter landscape, his strongest bond is a promise to his family back home ...

Russia, 1920. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to be reunited with his wife and sons, but he finds the village silent and empty, the men massacred in the forest. Kolya sets out on a journey as bitter winter sets in, in the desperate hope he will find his family. However there are very dark things in his past - and there's someone, or something, on his trail...