North of the Aleutians
A Coast Guard Boarding Officer and a NOAA Observer

About this book:

The Bering Sea doesn't forgive mistakes, and it doesn't keep secrets. When a Coast Guard cutter chases a ghost ship into the frozen nursery grounds north of the Aleutians, Petty Officer Nathan Cole and NOAA observer Maeve Miller are the only thing standing between a ruthless poacher and the destruction of a fishery that feeds a nation. She knows every illegal trick in the book; he carries the badge and the firepower. Neither trusts the other's methods—but in sixty-foot seas with a killer on the rail, trust is the only currency that matters.

Nathan Cole has spent ten years boarding hostile decks in Arctic darkness, but he's never had a partner like Maeve Miller. She's survived Russian factory ships, witnessed a deckhand die because a skipper wouldn't stop the winch, and she reads a crab pot like a crime scene. Donald Vance thinks the storm is his shield—no radar, no aircraft, no boarding team crazy enough to launch in freezing spray. He's wrong. The *Resolute* is coming dark, and she's bringing the law.

From the rust-streaked decks of Dutch Harbor to the knife-edge of the Donut Hole, *North of the Aleutians* plunges you into the world's deadliest fishery—where the quota is measured in lives, the evidence freezes solid in thirty seconds, and the line between enforcement and survival vanishes in the green water. Authentic, unflinching, and written with the salt in its veins, this is maritime thriller at its sharpest: two professionals, one rogue captain, and a sea that swallows mistakes whole.