Chapter 1
I’m Claire, my husband is Roger. We were about ten years into our marriage when we were on vacation in Quebec, Canada. We drove up through the Finger Lakes Region of New York, visited Montreal and Ottawa and then spent a couple of days in Quebec City. Roger is an avid fisherman and had scheduled a day to try his luck in one of the northern lakes. I have gone with him once or twice, but I find fishing incredibly boring. I can catch the nicest salmon in about five minutes in the supermarket. But it’s good for him to get away and relax. He has a stressful job. It gives me some time alone too so I can do some of the things that only I like to do.
Roger had booked the fishing trip up into the sparsely inhabited forest to the north. He left before dawn and would be back late that nig
