After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.

After being betrayed by his own people and by white men, a Ute Indian boy, Thomas Black Bull, seeks to regain his pride in himself and in his heritage.

When his camp van crashes into a raging river, Daniel has to decide whether to help the bullies who call him dork breath and retard and risk everything, or to save himself.

Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.

Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.

Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Chadwick's life was balanced on a knife's edge -- his career, his marriage, his relationship with his dangerously troubled daughter. And then one autumn night, the worst possible thing happened ... Now, a decade later, Chadwick's heart is on the mend. Working for an old military buddy, he saves kids for a living, escorting troubled teens to a Texas wilderness school that specializes in the toughest brand of love. Until he gets a phone call that threatens...

Isolating himself in a remote part of the Yukon territory in order to forget his past, Call Hawkins finds himself unable to ignore New York City girl Charity Sinclair, who is being targeted by a vengeful killer.

Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, John Fremont must fight his way out, battling the frigid elements in a harrowing journey over the backbone of the continent. In this tale of desperate danger and fierce courage, Wheeler presents the reader with a survival saga like none before it-a struggle of man against man, man against nature, and man against himself- a novel you will never forget.

Once there was a worldś end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy. The boyś name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history...