Something Wild & Wonderful

Alexei Lebedev sets out to hike the 2,500-mile Pacific Crest Trail ready for rattlesnakes, blisters and months of solitude, but not for Ben Caravalho, the outgoing, charismatic hiker he keeps running into again and again. Ben has a history of bad decisions involving beautiful men, yet he cannot walk away from the quietly nerdy Alexei, who is still finding his way to living openly as a gay man after a lonely upbringing. As they walk the trail together through the Western wilderness, a tentative friendship grows into a tender romance, until their plans for the future are upended. A warm sullen-meets-sunshine love story about healing and self-discovery, it is a gentle, deeply romantic read set against wild landscapes.