A woman seeking silence. A shaman who speaks in warnings. A forest that keeps its dead.Julie Harper escapes her fractured life in Australia for the frozen silence of Alta, Norway. She hopes the polar night and the shimmering aurora will grant her peace. Instead, she finds a town uneasy with its own edges, and rumors of Lasse, a solitary Sami shaman who lives deep in the woods. To the locals, he's an unsettling figure his gaze too intense, his knowledge too intimate, his presence a ripple in the community's calm. Julie, intrigued and seeking meaning, decides to meet him.Inside his remote turf hut, Lasse speaks of spirits, destiny, and the hungry awareness of the land itself. Julie is both captivated and unnerved. On her third visit, under a sky ablaze with northern lights, his farewell is a cold, specific threat: "Do not walk alone tonight. Something follows."She walks home through the snow-cloaked forest. She vanishes.What follows is a collapse into suspicion and collective dread. With only a glove and scattered footprints as evidence, the town turns on Lasse. His eerie calm, his history of unsettling women, and his isolation make him the perfect suspect. Julie's family pleads for answers, but the investigation stalls as winter tightens its grip, burying the case in ice and doubt.Months later, the spring melt reveals the horrifying truth, exonerating Lasse but offering no comfort. The community is left shattered, forced to confront a more primal fear: the understanding that they live on the edge of a wildness that does not care for human stories.Dances with the Shaman is a gripping, atmospheric novel of suspense that lingers long after the final page. It is a story about the monsters we imagine, the real ones that walk in the snow, and the terrifying silence that exists between a warning and a fateful step.