{"product_id":"heartwood-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-novel","title":"Heartwood (A Read with Jenna Pick): A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe best thriller of 2025. The Boston Globe * Genius. The Washington PostA literary thriller of the highest order (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail.Deep in the Maine woods, an experienced hiker goes missing. She is fortytwoyearold Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventysixyearold birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valeries disappearance may not be accidental.Heartwood is a gem of a thousand facetssuspenseful, transporting, tender, and ultimately soulmending, (Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) that tells the story of a lost hikers odyssey and is a moving rendering of each characters interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is an unputdownable (Real Simple) and redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47953111351541,"sku":"DADAX1668063611","price":20.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81AvrAy7IZL.jpg?v=1775486164","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/heartwood-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}