When the recreation center burns down in the Arctic Alaskan town of Chukchi, killing eight people, including the town's basketball star and the police chief, it looks like arson. Did someone want Chief Silver dead, or could a jealous ex-boyfriend be responsible. State Trooper Nathan Active is a native of Chukchi, but adopted and raised in anchorage and is considered as almost white by the Inupiat residents, and the pressure is on him and his fellow...

"Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fiancé, Dr. Todd Brenner, are on a flight over the Brooks Range when their Bush plane runs out of gas and hits a ridge, instantly killing them both. Chukchi police chief Nathan Active doubts he'll find anything amiss when his close friend, Cowboy Decker, asks him to look into the possibility of foul play. But Evie was like a daughter to Cowboy, who trained her to fly, and he insists there's no way his...