Protection

This is a story of love, loss and redemption, the bonds between family and the outdoors, and those rarest of opportunities to right past wrongs.

It starts and ends with falling, and with lies, and the colour blue. Blue used to be my favourite colour, but not any more. If I see a certain shade it makes me shiver. Reminds me of the emptiness that lurks inside, and how that emptiness feeds off the cold. A stabbing, unrelenting cold.

Running away is Jase’s answer to everything: having to compete against his older brother Duncan: avoiding a growing love for his friend Kate: facing his fear of climbing in the mountains close to home.

One of these days Jase will have to stop running. The people he cares for need his strength, his ability and his judgement. Will he make the right decision before it is too late?