KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat & owns half-wolf half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful strong-willed defiant Kate is tougher than your average heroine
- & she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. A COLD BLOODED BUSINESS. It's March. Someone is selling drugs to the employees of a Prudhoe Bay oil field company & the company hires Kate to go undercover & apprehend the dealer. But coke isn't the only illegal substance being dealt...