It began as a challenge...

For Dallas McCabe, America's most famous reporter, no problem was too complex, no injustice too minor. She would do anything for a story. Even trek up a mountain outside Burrowsville, South Carolina, through fourteen miles of dense wilderness. There, in the heart of nowhere, she found back-to-nature survivalist Daniel Masters. Big as a bear, with a lush beard and wild black hair, Daniel looked like a half-feral mountain man as he ordered her off his land.

But what had begun as a challenge soon became a test of wills, and Dallas was more determined than ever to leave the mountain with more than just a story ....