Phillip is an officer with the Royal Mounted in Canada, tracking down a rumor about a murderer named Bram who is hiding in the wilds. Bram is well known to be a madman, a murderer, and the owner of a pack of ferocious wolves. Phillip meets with an eyewitness who shows him a strange rabbit snare that Bram left behind. The snare is made from a woman's golden hair. This propels Phillip to travel into the wild and barren wastelands of the north, searching for an answer to the mystery of the golden hair.

I loved this adventure so much! I could barely put it down because the pacing is so fast and every chapter is full of suspense and action. I really loved the mystery of the women with the golden hair, and how Phillip is intrigued by her wild story. I was so entranced with the action scenes that I was pumping my fists and yelling, "Shoot him! Shoot that evil guy! Punch him! Yeah!" I felt like I was watching an action movie and getting all involved in the adrenaline of the moment.

There is a really lovely romance in this book as well. I thought it was really sweet and thoughtful how Phillip falls in love and then falls deeper and deeper in love as the story progresses. Everything is enhanced when you are out in the wilderness, fighting for your life and having adventures together. All the extraneous things are stripped away, and you are able to see into the raw truth of people's character and personality. So it's natural that people would fall in love in this raw and intense way. And yet Phillip is very introspective and reflects in a quick-thinking way, as he reacts to each new situation in the adventure and his feelings develop and change.