Nominated for the 2018 Forest of Reading 2019 Red Maple Fiction award
When TristanтАЩs dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him тАФ but will TristanтАЩs talents save him if it turns out to be a trap?
Thanks to his dadтАЩs coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like theyтАЩre security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when his father disappears, leaving his mother too grief-stricken to function, the young canyoneerтАЩs life goes into freefall.
Left in the hands of a well-meaning but incompetent uncle and a space-cadet housekeeper, Tristan finds life a struggle no matter how hard he works. When he nears the end of his rope at home, the teen decides to set off into Swallow Canyon in search of his father тАФ only to realize that someone may be out to get him. Now the question is whoтАЩs stalking whom, and are TristanтАЩs skills up to the dangerous game playing out in the deep, shadowy canyon?