“You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You’re so afraid you’ll fail at something, you won’t even try.”
For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she’s here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak’s bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts when another body turns up, and Haley beginst to wonder if the tragedies she experienced in the past are connected to the dangers and mysterious incidents of the present.
From behind her camera, Haley observes it all, including Tank Lassiter, the wildlife biologist who has been forced to lead Kipp and his team into the Alaskan backcountry. As she watches him with his work, she feels a growing attraction. It will take great courage and faith to confront the truth she once ran away from. Before it’s over, Haley may be viewing herself from an entirely new angle.
Alaska Twilight is the story of a young woman’s emergence from the shadows of past sorrow into the light of forgiveness and grace.
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 0/5
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Summary
Alaska Twilight by Colleen Coble is one of her stand alone novels. As is her trademark, it's not until the very end of the novel that you know "who done it". Obviously the setting is Alaska in a contemporary setting. The protagonist of the story, Haley Walsh, returns to Alaska after twenty years of being away to try to come to terms with her past, in which she believes she killed her sister. The reader doesn't find out what exactly happened until midway or more through the story. Haley is a hard character to get to know because she keeps to herself and is rather hidden about her past. Through her short stint photographing a wild life bear enthusiast, she meets another odd character, Tank Lassiter, whose story is equally intriguing. He is a biologist who has made bears his life focus; but to look at him one would think he was a Paul Bunyan type. The plot is a little slow in this novel--not at all like other novels of Coble\'s. It\'s only because I have read and loved Coble\'s other novels, that I stuck with this one. And I\'m glad I did, even though it lacks Coble\'s normal ability to grip the reader. One fun thing about this novel is that Bree Nicholls Matthews of Coble\'s Rock Harbor series makes a bit appearance, as does her faithful search and rescue dog, Samson. This novel has a clear biblical worldview threaded throughout.
Violence Mostly wildlife violence with bear attacks, but some other. Not graphic.
Drug & Alcohol Some talk of prescription med usage that may have been abused, but not a focus of the plot.