Beyond the Wild

Finding freedom is more than just running away. Sometimes it requires coming together. Living in the wilderness is not for the faint of heart. The tiny community of Paradise Creek managed to escape a cruel regime in exchange for safety, peace, and freedom, and they'd like to keep it that way. When the kids from Paradise Creek go on a camping adventure, they come across a shack out in the middle of nowhere.
Loner Mac Gower and his wife Annie have escaped that same regime, and Mac has no intentions of ever losing his freedom again. But Annie longs for the sense of community that she once had. The kids befriend Mac and Annie and invite them back to Paradise Creek to meet their parents. Mac is reluctant to go, but he wants Annie to be happy. Mac and Annie are met with polite apprehension when they meet the adults of Paradise Creek.
A few of them sense something in the couple that makes them realize they have more in common than they have differences if Mac could just stop battling his demons. It will take the innocent trust of the kids and the faith of the whole village to make Paradise Creek a community they can all call home.