"For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoe's wilderness journey as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace." "These are Bledsoe's gripping tales of fending off wolves in Alaska, encountering UFOs in the Colorado...

""I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, narrator of Lucy Jane Bledsoe's newest novel. And Christine and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, is buried in her work and cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart, Mark, has an outwardly perfect life, but her fierce control is beginning to falter....

A collection of stories on women's relationship to sports and to each other. In The Pass, two members of a bike-racing team experience a moment of love as they break through the pain barrier.