Overview
Jake, a tower climber for Ontario Northern Signal Solutions, faces a brutal test when a routine job off Highway 11 turns deadly. Stranded 75 meters up, bloodied from a fall-lips split, teeth gone-he watches wolves tear his ATV apart, a fluorescent key fob lost in the chaos. A scarred bear, bullet-grazed and fierce, stalks below, its "hey fellas" swagger daring him to move. Armed only with a wrench, a bulb, and a distant shotgun, Jake fights to survive, hurling glass at the bruiser's head, firing shots to clear the bush. Each step down is a gamble, his thighs raw from a seatless escape, his anger burning at Karen's naive "enough"-no sidearm, just rules blind to the wild. At the Flying J, battered and staggering, he slurs, "I need a new job," but it's the marten's lesson that drives him: fierce, scarred, never broken. Calling his boss east of Moonbeam, he demands, "Karen goes or I go." She's gone, but so is he, quitting like the marten-still himself, choosing his ground. In Ontario's unforgiving spring, Jake's scars match the bear's, proving survival is grit, not luck, in a world where only the real endure.
- | Author: Jacob 'Jake' Mercer
- | Publisher: Independently Published
- | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 00064 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: NA
- | ISBN-13: 9798319340399
