Crossing Shelikof: Alaska Adventure - By Land, Air, and Sea - Hardcover

by Marali Sargent-Smith (Author)

Alaskan artist Loren's life explodes into a fight for survival after she and her Aleut realtor friend Belle helicopter to a remote lodge for sale on the Alaska Peninsula. A bomb detonated by drug runners blows them into a fiord where Loren and Belle, injured and alone, must rely on wilderness skills to escape the ocean, claw through forests along rugged mountains, evade Kodiak brown bears, and fend off wolves as they battle to stay alive. Desperate to get home, the pair take refuge in a cave only to discover it's an active missile site traded to Russia by someone in the US government. The final battle takes place in the legendary Shelikof Strait. Experiencing the beauty and unpredictability of wild Alaska, being pulled into the lives of two resourceful young women and a chopper pilot who refuse to give up, makes for an entertaining adventure story that delivers.