Double-Sided Coin

Alaska, 1961. Wyatt Peoples, the newly appointed special agent for the Alaska Railroad, is candid enough to admit he's still growing into the job, and determined to do whatever it takes to protect the railroad.

When a woman is found dead aboard the Fairbanks-to-Anchorage run, it looks like a routine tragedy. It isn't. The victim was a familiar face to the train crew-until it turns out she wasn't who anyone believed her to be.

Special Agent Wyatt Peoples and his Chief Deputy Greg Baker peel back layers of deception to expose an identity wrapped in secrets and a conspiracy with roots running deeper than anyone imagined. The trail leads from the railroad yards of Anchorage to the remote mining camps of the interior. With a loyal dog, a sharp-eyed scout, and nothing but frontier instinct to guide him, Wyatt is about to learn that in Alaska, the truth can shift as fast as the weather.

Set against the spectacular and treacherous backdrop of Alaska's last frontier era, Double-Sided Coin is a rich, atmospheric follow-up to Gold Miner's Daughter that captures the rough beauty of a land and time unlike any other. Part western, part character study of a man finding his footing in an untamed world, it brings a new voice to American frontier fiction.