Twenty lucky winners will win a copy of Stef Penney’s Under a Pole Star, winner of the 2017 Wilbur and Niso Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel!

In an epic story of ambition, perseverance, and love against the odds, Stef Penney returns to the wild Arctic setting she brought so vividly to life in The Tenderness of Wolves.

"A fascinating, mysterious historical novel about a female explorer in a world of men at the end of the nineteenth century. Under a Pole Star is an adventure, an illicit romance, and a life-defying exploration of a land most of us know nothing about. The contrast of the lovers' blazing relationship set against the frigid Arctic and the secrets that propel the narrative will keep readers riveted in this hard-to-forget, mesmerizing tale!”
—M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author