Congratulations to Heather Werner for her 2025 Goldie Award for Summit’s Shadow

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Heather Werner

”  Set against the brutal, yet breathtaking, backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, Summit’s Shadow blends themes of survival, female friendship, and self-discovery into a story that leaps off the page. Add in a dose of spooky lore, and you have a tale that both warms the heart and chills the bones, keeping readers gripped until the very end.
-Katie Collom

Biography

Heather Werner is a novelist and adventure writer. Whether she’s scaling the Seven Summits, bicycling across continents, or giving a world-record haircut on the slopes of Mount Everest, she loves to find the small, intimate stories woven into the journey. Heather is a contributing writer for Weekend Sherpa and Trail Sisters, and although she currently lives in sunny Silicon Valley, her heart will always belong to the woods of New England.

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We are please to announce that our author Heather Werner has been honored with a 2025 Goldie Award in the Paranormal/Occult/Horror genre.

Summit’s Shadow received a 2025 Goldie Award on July 19, 2025 in Albany, New York at the annual Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Awards and Conference.

Please join us in congratulating Heather on this well-deserved honor! 🏅✨

Read the full list of 2025 Goldie Award winners here.

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Tana Walker has only ever felt at home in the mountains. So when her college roommates plan to reunite for a girls’ trip, she suggests an Alaskan expedition to attempt the treacherous Mount Torket. At over eighteen-thousand feet tall, and crisscrossed with crevasses, avalanche zones, and dangerous pitches, Mount Torket is a climber’s dream—or nightmare. Unbeknownst to her teammates, Tana has summited Torket once before, nearly two decades ago. The day her entire family vanished from its icy peak without a trace. The higher they climb, the more the women suspect they’re not alone. Footsteps and shadows stalk their every move, growing bolder and more vicious as the days wear on. When a slew of near-death accidents befall their journey, Tana realizes that Torket is no typical mountain—and her parents’ disappearance was anything but ordinary. As Tana’s quest for closure morphs into a fight for survival, she and her friends must band together, even as Torket threatens to rip them apart. Otherwise, they’ll end up as one more batch of souls lost to the dark and hungry mountain.
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