What if the most important relationship of your life wasn't with another person, but with a place?

One unexpected trip to the Arctic Circle becomes the first chapter of a life that thirty-three-year-old Chloë Rain never would have chosen.

Sitting in a Baltimore coffee shop before work one morning, Chloë overhears the name of the man she’s still in love with spoken by his new girlfriend, as their baby sits beside her in the stroller. The woman is planning her wedding. The marriage and the family Chloë had wanted for herself are being lived by someone else entirely.

Angry at a God she doesn’t even believe in, Chloë makes a demanding prayer:

"God, get me the fuck out of here, and I don’t just mean the coffee shop."

That same day, a photograph on her computer screen of the Lofoten Islands in Norway compels her to book a vacation to the Arctic Circle.

The trip is intended as a birthday present to herself, she doesn’t own a pair of hiking boots or even a fleece, and she has no idea the journey will radically alter the course of her life.