Inside Alta Journal’s Issue 31.

How the groundbreaking work of anthropologist Carobeth Laird finally came to light.

Almost everyone in Lake Tahoe agrees that allowing large predators to eat human food is a bad idea. But there’s little consensus on what to do when these scimitar-clawed creatures start insisting on it. A fatality and an increased number of home invasions and attacks have raised the stakes—just in time for spring, when hibernation ends.

Leigh Bardugo conquered the YA category with her magical novels, achieving fame and financial success. Then, five years ago, she took the leap to adult fiction and began building new worlds for millions of readers.