A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC's remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm pushes Will to the brink of deadly choices, at fate's mercy.
Their idyll darkens with Will's hellish predicament, as the seventh dream door crashes shut. He must act under agonizing pressure, and the disorientation of clashing realities. Will he find the strength and wisdom to overcome the odds and avoid disaster?
Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass breaks the mold of linear narrative by splitting its ending into multiple, coexisting plot threads, or timelines, twisting away from a nightmare hallway of seven doors. The story plays out a mystery of magic realism against the backdrop of vast natural beauty in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia (think Groundhog Day in the heart of the Canadian wilderness).
Caught in the strands of a deadly time-loop, Will must face the choosing of a successful adventure, time after time until he gets it right.
Nowick Gray writes fiction and creative nonfiction in a variety of genres, exploring the edges of narrative convention and the wild spaces of the natural world. Rendezvous captures the flavor of his alternative lifestyle homesteading and treeplanting in British Columbia in the ’80s and ’90s. Nowick currently lives and writes on Salt Spring Island, BC, where he is also fond of hiking, kayaking, and playing African drums.