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When Cinder Memorial closes during wildfire season, paramedic Ruth Hale has one job: drive her estranged father to an assisted-living bed in Idaho before smoke, road closures, and his failing lungs make the trip impossible.
Tom Hale once served as a county judge. Now he recognizes the evacuation route on Ruth's dashboard as a road he helped remove from the plan years earlier. Every detour exposes another consequence: a shuttered clinic, a stranded family, a shelter with too few cots, and a system that calls its own failures manageable. Ruth can keep him alive. She cannot keep carrying his version of the past.
As the corridor closes, Ruth must choose between an official route that may fail them and a tightly controlled road that requires her to make room for other evacuees. The Long Way Through is a tense, intimate adult novel about wildfire, family duty, public memory, and what it costs to tell the truth while there is still time to act.
When Cinder Memorial closes during wildfire season, paramedic Ruth Hale has one job: drive her estranged father to an assisted-living bed in Idaho before smoke, road closures, and his failing lungs make the trip impossible.
Tom Hale once served as a county judge. Now he recognizes the evacuation...
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