Frozen Tide

The story unfolds in Dutch Harbor and the town of Unalaska, a crab fishing and processing center. Sarah is living alone in a one-room loft above the saloon where she tends bar. She is in charge of getting the bar stocked for the returning crews. She expects the bar owner and captain of the Westender -- along with her brother, a Westender deckhand -- to return any day from the 12- week season. The boat - brimming with crabs - makes it back to port piloted by a stranger who quickly vanishes. Its equipment is in disarray and the crew -- plus the million dollars that was supposed to have been deposited in the captain's bank account as payment for the 250,000-pound catch -- have gone missing.

Sarah, who had been tracking Westender's whereabouts by downloading satellite images to her computer, discovers that an Odin Energy supertanker was in the vicinity of the boat. She delves deeper into the circumstances of the missing crew and money enlisting the help of her online oceanography professor from the University of Hawaii. Every clue points to the Odin research vessel and owner Kell Odin's plot to monopolize methane supplies from the ocean - despite the risks to human life that can be caused by breaching the ocean floor to extract this explosive fuel.

As toxic methane gas begins to claim lives, including Sarah's beloved brother, she risks her life to expose Odin Energy's scheme and get justice for her brother while saving the earth from an environmental crisis.