No man's land (an Alaskan Bush People story)

Ayla, a young New York writer, receives a proposal from a publisher to travel to Alaska and meet the Brown family, to write about their peculiar way of seeing the world. As soon as she lands, Ayla meets the couple and their seven children, an exception to Matt, the ledest, who is admitted to Juneau because of his drinking problems.
The girl, moved by a feeling of altruism that she has never felt, promises the mother that she will return Matt home, safe and sound. Although his plans change, once they are left alone ...