Be Careful What You Search For Because You Just Might Find It: a review of Amy Stuart's "Still Mine"

Still Mine
by Amy Stuart
320 pages
Simon & Schuster

If you want an American backdrop that is otherworldly, and quite separate from what most folks think of when they think of America, you can't do much better than Alaska. It's about as close to Narnia as you're going to get with its terrain that's as perilous as it is pretty.

The protagonist, Clare, arrives in the remote town of Blackmore posing as a photographer and asking questions about a young missing woman named Shayna. Blackmore's reside...