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September, 1847.
The first woman Captain James Fitzjames sees in years is brought to him in the wake of yet another fatality.
After a hunting accident leaves a seaman dead, James Fitzjames follows proper naval procedure when getting to the truth of it. In accordance with Victorian-era custom, this does not include asking the Inuit woman—dragged before them by the men for questioning—anything. And James cannot forget the look she gives him afterwards.
When the woman reveals she cannot return to her people, James makes a rash decision that binds them both. Trapped in the ice, with both his mission and his will slowly unraveling, he finds himself drawn into a strange reckoning with a woman who knows the land, the truth of his quest, and the cost of survival far better than he ever will.
(Or: Repressed Victorian subjectivity is forcibly (!!) reintroduced to humanity by an outsider who does not consent to such restrictions.)