Revised edition (December 2023) Can you trust your instincts when they have betrayed you in the past? Nature lover Litza York is thrilled when she gets the opportunity to finish her PhD in Eastern Finland, researching the rare Saimaa seal. The landscape's magical beauty and the residents' friendly hospitality lure her to believe she has come to the right place to forget about her troubled past. But the idyll is soon disrupted when someone starts poisoning the object of her study, bringing the Saimaa seal to the verge of extinction. Together with handsome park ranger Niilo Vuorokoski, she does all she can to protect her favorite animal-and ends up bringing herself in mortal danger... Romantic suspense meets cozy crime in Finland's lonely countryside.