when a blizzard strands them in salt lake city two strangers agree to charter a plane together hoping to return home ben payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference and ashley knox a magazine writer is en route to her wedding but when unthinkable tragedy strikes the pair find themselves stranded in utahs most remote wilderness in the dead of winter badly injured and miles from civilization without food or shelter and only bens mountain climbing gear to protect themselves ashley and bens chances for survival look bleak but their reliance on each other sparks an immediate connection which soon evolves into something moredays in the mountains become weeks as their hope for rescue dwindles how will they make it out of the wilderness and if they do how will this experience change them forever heartwrenching and unputdownable the mountain between us will reaffirm your belief in the power of love to sustain us