Alaskan Christmas Mayday

On a December noon with four hours of daylight, bush pilot Josie Kjelstad lands at Wisdom Creek to close up a dead man's cabin. Fourteen minutes after she takes off again, her engine quits.Somebody has torn up the floor of old Sully Teague's cabin. The stove is still warm. A snowmachine starts up in the spruce while she stands in the doorway. And somebody has plugged the fuel vents on her airplane with spruce pitch.Sergeant Micah Varner ruled Sully's death an accident in October. He does not like small airplanes, half the town has money on the month he leaves, and he climbs into a rival pilot's Cessna to find Josie before dark comes down at 2:34.Somebody in Lodestar wants Sully's Star, nineteen ounces of crystal gold the whole town believes is lost, and believes Josie knows where it is. With her logbook missing and everyone watching the wrong man, Josie and Micah have until Christmas to read an old prospector's Bible the way he meant it.Alaskan Christmas Mayday is the first book in the Lodestar Alaska Troopers series: clean, faith-filled romantic suspense in the Alaskan interior, with a complete love story and a happy ending. The first chapter of Book Two is at the end.This book was written with the help of generative AI and edited by Samawa Editions.