Ronja in the Woods — S.K. Epperson

The white-haired Ronja Haugen rescued by native Eris Renard and tracker Winter Slocum has lost some of her edge, thanks to a decision to carry a child for someone who can't. At five months pregnant, Ronja accompanies her sister Bara and their company of friends in a quest to find a boy gone missing from a campground near the Rocky Mountain National Park. Near the edge of the forest, Ronja learns just how much of a caveman Eris Renard can be once they reach the site of the disappearance and encounter a dark and menacing force of nature alien to all of them, even the experienced trackers in the group. Ronja, Eris and Winter are about to reconsider everything they think they know about natural order...and babies.