<i>'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.' </i><br/><i>And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away.</i><br/><br/></i>Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people...