Heartwood (A Read with Jenna Pick): A Novel

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “ Heartwood will keep you guessing the whole way through...I didn't want it to end.” —Liz Moore “You will open this book and you will not stop reading.” —Jenna Bush Hager “A riveting wilderness suspense novel by a novelist at the height of her powers” (Jennifer Egan Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Candy House ) Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine. In the heart of the Maine woods an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old 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.