On his fifth birthday, Seven Ashford watches his father push his mother off a cliff. He leaps after her—and survives on a breaking tree jutting from the rock face. His mother, Elena, is barely breathing. The man who should save them is throwing stones from above to finish the job.
Back in the city, Seven’s father and his mistress—the boy’s trusted nanny—play grieving survivors while plotting to seize the Ashford family fortune. With Seven’s wealthy grandmother gravely ill, only a loyal family ally begins to question their story.
Stranded above a deadly ravine, Seven has one promise to keep: he will bring Mommy home. Facing hunger, freezing storms, snakes, and a fiercely protective golden eagle, he turns everything he finds into a chance to survive. But when supposed rescuers arrive, one familiar nickname reveals that calling for help could get them killed.
Then Seven discovers a wildlife camera that may have recorded his father’s crime. To save his mother and expose the betrayal, he must carry its memory card up the cliff he was never meant to escape.
His father is preparing to inherit everything. He hasn’t counted on a battered five-year-old walking back through the door—with his mother alive and the truth in his pocket.
