A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue
Kate Fisher and Red Nelson, women pilots and estranged sisters from opposite sides of a fractured family, are thrown together in a suspenseful drama of Search & Rescue in the Adirondack mountains of New York State when Red is framed for the brutal attack on the manager of her indie rock band.
Her dying mother begs her to flee for sanctuary to the only family Red doesn't yet know--her sister Kate. But dramatic crosswinds take her plane into a spin and she emergency lands in a remote gorge. Kate, a Search & Rescue worker, is called to the crash site of Red's plane, to solve the mystery through clues that lead her to a dangerous reunion with her sister. When the real attacker comes after Red and threatens Kate's family, including her daughter, Molly, who decides to hide Red on their property, concern over Molly's safety forces the two sisters to face past secrets and present dangers, stage a real rescue, and begin to repair the broken but longed-for family they come from.
A cross-generational family saga with fast-paced tension, called "an exciting work of survival fiction with strong female characters," (Kirkus Review, selected for Kirkus magazine) that "deftly balances the tension and danger of a crime thriller with the emotion and compassion of a family saga" (Independent Book Review), A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue is a literary thriller that explores the unexpected gift of found family in times of loss and tragedy, the forging of a meaningful but complex sister relationship between two related strangers, and the discovery, by three women of different generations, that by saving each other, they save themselves.
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"About music and love and who-and what-has gone missing from our lives and how we desperately try to get it all back. Gorgeously written ... as astonishing as it is real."
-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of With or Without You
"Mary Carroll Moore parallels Kate Fisher's very internal struggle-a husband she fears has turned away from her again-with Red Nelson's very physical, immediate flight from a violent man and terrible loss. A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue brilliantly shows how distant lives can intersect unexpectedly and why family, in all of its various forms, provides both tragedy and grace. With immaculately crafted suspense, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue is both impossible to put down and intimate enough to make you feel a member of this brave, unstoppable family."
-Rachel Moulton, author of Tinfoil Butterfly and The Insatiable Volt Sisters
"Rich with character and compassion, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue is a thrilling, deftly told tale of flight, survival, and discovery-of one's own strength and resilience, and of the bonds that make strangers family."
-Kate Racculia, Alex Award-winning author of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts and Bellweather Rhapsody
"A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue opens with a harrowing plane crash in the wilderness and culminates in a beautiful, surprising friendship between two estranged sisters who save each other in unexpected ways. Mary Carroll Moore weaves a masterful tale of the family we choose."
-Ginger Eager, author of the AWP-award-winning novel The Nature of Remains and Georgia Author of the Year
