I have always had a knack for knowing the minds of dogs. . . .

Tracy Petrikoff has always loved her family's remote Alaskan home and her parents' business training and racing sled dogs. But ever since her mother died the year before, the family has been struggling. Tracy holds tight to the memories of her mother and the rules she was told never to break: Never lose sight of the house. Never come home with dirty hands. Never make a person bleed. . . .

When a stranger attacks Tracy in the woods, she does not tell her father?he does not need another reason to worry. But when another wanderer emerges from the woods, looking for a job, it becomes clear that a web is drawing tightly over her family. Now Tracy must protect those she loves best, even though it could mean breaking her mother's rules.

An electrifying debut that explores questions of loyalty and family, love and longing, The Wild Inside introduces you to a voice and a writer you will not soon forget.

Born in Illinois, Jamey Bradbury has lived in Alaska for fifteen years, leaving only briefly to earn her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Winner of an Estelle Campbell Memorial Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, she has published fiction in Black Warrior Review, Sou'wester, and Zone 3, and she has written for the Anchorage Daily News, TheBillfold.com, and storySouth. Jamey lives in Anchorage, Alaska.