Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 feet 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine — and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
A Cold Blooded Business.
It's March. Someone is selling drugs to the employees of a Prudhoe Bay oil field company, and the company hires Kate to go undercover and apprehend the dealer. But cocaine isn't the only illegal substance being dealt.