Caribou Crossing

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. Caribou 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 Wildlife Refuge.