By William W. Johnstone

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras.  Smoke Jensen and his family won’t let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays.  There are two ways to get there- the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains-or the short way, going right through them.  Smoke decides to gamble and ride straight through.  They will follow the trail that four decades earlier brought the legandary Donner party to a gruesome end.  And so the journey begins…