General 5 — Suze Gray Williams

Too Many Ways to Die

ABBEY KITTLE has a talent for multitasking. This morning, she chucked her dream job, dumped her fiancé, and pissed off her adoptive parents by moving to Alaska. A seasonal job will pay the bills, and she’ll use her spare time to search for her birth parents. That’s the plan.

But Alaska’s not much on multitasking; you lose focus, you die. Half the clients can only be reached by bush plane, her new boss/pilot has a drinking problem, and Abbey doesn’t have a minute to herself. Their first flight is to pick up the victim of a hunting accident. The good news is, he may be related to Abbey. The bad news is, he’s dead, and it wasn’t an accident.

Abbey pokes into the case, which annoys the local state trooper no end, and doesn’t much please the killer—who starts stalking her. But blood is blood, and Abbey is determined to find out who killed her only known relative before she could meet him—and why. A hunger for her blood family and a sense of belonging are so compelling, she is willing to risk it all.

Along the way, she resists falling in love with a charming musher who’s running a team in the Iditarod, where she’s volunteering. The killer is out there, too and if he doesn’t end her life, Alaska just might.