Thank you NetGalley and Dundurn Press for the eARC.
This was my favorite in the series, I loved it!
Amanda Doucette is on the West Coast of B.C. preparing for her next trip when she meets Like, an old hippie whose painting she has fallen in love with and she strikes up a friendship with him. He suffers from PTSD as does she and she feels deeply for him and his trauma. He has lived in isolation for 50 years fighting his demons, trying to drive them away by painting.
The story is intense; taking us from the Vietnam war and the hippy communes of the 60's to today, with stunning descriptions of the landscape and the mystery of Luke's background, which is slowly fleshed out into a great ending. Great stuff!
Highly recommended.

Fradkin has sent the heroine of this series westward across Canada as she sets up therapeutic travel adventures for people suffering from addiction or PTSD. Amanda Doucette herself is dealing with PTSD from her work for an NGO in Nigeria, interrupted by a terrorist attack. By setting up a series of rigorous outdoor activities she hopes to help a group of men suffering from addiction find strength in the beauty of the Canadian Pacific Northwest. While scouting options, she sees a striking painting and wants to meet the artist - an aging recluse who lives in seclusion on an island. She soon realizes he, too, has been scarred by trauma, visible in a studio where the artwork evokes the terrors of war and his experiences decades ago in Vietnam.

When a nosy visitor turns up dead, he becomes a suspect, and Amanda wants to help him, since she's convinced he wouldn't kill anyone. What follows is an evocative trip through beautifully-described forests, mountains, and rocky islands as the story of the artist's past and his family history is teased into view.

I really enjoyed this book, though I've only read one other in the series. It will be interesting to see where Fradkin goes next, as this appears - maybe? - to be the final installment in this series.