Loner Dylan, seeking to heal from wartime trauma, pursues a new-found dream of building and training a winning sled dog team to compete in the Iditarod. He makes a difficult choice to rescue a stranger lost in a blizzard instead of seeking to win a preliminary race. This choice and its results throw unexpected but major changes into his solitary life. Can he accept and adapt to these changes?<br><br>Grey must prove himself, pursuing his dream of seeing Alaska first hand and writing about the world of sled dog racing in a powerful way to jump start his chosen sports and feature writing career. Young and na?ve, he almost pays with his life for a bad decision. Can he learn and grow fast enough to survive in the unforgiving environment and overcome a rocky start with his new hero, musher Dylan?

Love Is Snowblind

Moments later, he again put the team in motion and started down the trail. He could barely comprehend the reality of it. He was in Alaska, driving a team of sled dogs, and running them in a real race! It didn’t get much better than that. Unless he screwed up badly, he figured he’d be able to keep working with Dylan. If he got really lucky, he might slowly gain the other man’s confidence as both a protégé and a friend, maybe even as a long-term partner. That was his new dream.


Someday he’d get that book written, the story of how Dylan Norgard became a top-level musher. For now he had the material for several good feature stories, two of which he’d already submitted. Next year when Dylan won the Iditarod, that’s when Grey’d do that book.


Chapter 21