Shannon DeShay is about to have her world turned upside down. She spent her youthful summers hiking the tundra and running the rivers of wild Alaska beside her father, a field geologist with the powerful oil company ANZA. Now, nearly a decade later, Shannon is a Legislative aide to a newly elected U.S. Senator. She moves to Washington, D.C., and befriends Mark Meadows, a newspaper reporter who has a shocking theory. Shannon and Mark become trapped in a vortex of dark conspiracy and wrong doing, and Shannon's only escape is the strength she finds in her wilderness past. Cariboo Crossing is a story of intrigue, landscape, and love that blends elements of Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf with the pacing of John Grisham's The Pelican Brief. At its nexus is a real issue: attempts by the petroleum industry -- and most of Alaska's political and business leaders -- to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildflife Refuge.
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