A round trip from Bellingham to Skagway on the Alaska Ferry Matanuska becomes a race against time. Can Brad Haraldsen and his detective friend Shane Lindstrom put away the people who killed Brad's first love? Amid the raw beauty and mystery of the Inside Passage, Brad and his artist-wife wife, Irene, play a serious game with powerful adversaries. The vacation of a lifetime becomes the chase of a lifetime as they team up with Alaska authorities to run the murderers to ground.Travel to Alaska in these pages and find new discoveries at every turn. If you've ever taken the Alaska Ferry, or dreamed of it, you'll never look at your fellow travelers the same again