Pete and Joe had found contentment in the hunting lodge that had proved a hideaway from a world that had treated neither man too well. Both men had found happiness in a new life reduced to basic things-a gun or a rod when they were hungry; a fire when they were cold; a drink when they were thirsty; a bed when they were tired.
That was before dark-haired Marty drove up to the camp one night, bringing with her memories of the old life the two had left-and a new husband. That, too, was before the blizzard howled out of the mountains and sealed them, Pete and Joe, Marty and her husband, in the lodge.
How each of these four changed during the days when their world was bounded by the walls and the roof of the lodge makes the story of Last Year's Snow. Love and hate that flared and waned, like the fire in the big stone fireplace, changes the lives of these four people in strange ways.
A startling climax, an unusual "last act"-all these go towards making Last Year's Snow a book which the reader will not want to leave unfinished, and one which, having finished, the reader will long remember.