THE HAND SHAKE MILE
Every spring, two road crews start ploughing a mountain pass from opposite ends - and on the day they finally break through to each other, they shake hands...
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Every spring, two road crews start ploughing a mountain pass from opposite ends - and on the day they finally break through to each other, they shake hands in a slot cut through seventy feet of snow, eat lunch on the roof of the world, and go home to towns two hundred miles apart.
It is the only day of the year that anybody crosses. The mountain sets the date. Willa Odegaard has worked her father's crew since she was nineteen. She is the best machine hand in the county and she has never spent a night outside the state she was born in.
Joss Havelock forecasts avalanches on the other side of the mountain for six weeks every spring, and then flies to the far end of the earth to do the same work again, because he has arranged his whole life so that nobody is ever his responsibility for longer than a season.
He has a reason. He has never told anybody what it is. For fourteen years they have one day.
Between those days: a brother who comes home broke, a father who cannot hold a coffee cup, a mother who dies on the other side of the world, a ring, a resignation, and a slope that does not hold.
And now the state is boring a tunnel through the mountain - which means the road will be open all winter, and the plough-out will end, and there will never be another handshake.
The thing that would let them see each other every day of their lives is the thing that destroys the only place either of them has ever been happy. One last mile. One last breakthrough. And somebody standing on the wrong side of the snow.
For readers who want a love story with real work in it, real weather, and an ending that pays for every year it took - THE HANDSHAKE MILE is a book you will finish in two sittings and press on somebody the same week. When you do, come back and tell us where you were standing.
Book details
Details: 271 pages, about 75,786 words, published by Robert Martin, publication date 9 September 2026.
Estimated reading time: about 5 hours.
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