Kris Farmen is a writer, editor, and historian. His books include The Devil’s Share, Turn Again, Edge of Somewhere, and Blue Ticket. His work has also appeared in Alaska
magazine, the Anchorage Press, and Russian Life, among others. He lives in Alaska with his wife, daughter, and rescue dog.
New ways to make a fortune and settle old scores. A lie will travel around the world before the truth reaches your next-door neighbor. So says Ivan Lukin's boss at Fort St. Michael on the Bering Sea. But the rumors have proven true; the United States of America has purchased Russian America from the Czar and renamed it Alaska. Now, as the colony erupts in chaos, everyone has a decision to make...
It is 1865, and the Russian America Company has kept Ivan Lukin busy working as a boat captain and dog teamster on the treeless Bering Sea coast at Fort St. Michael. His wife has left him, and with the return of his teenage daughter from boarding school he is thrust into a new life as a single parent. The ocean wind is cold and the monster graven into the face of the moon continues to watch his...
If he is caught, he will be executed as a spy. Ivan Lukin is the mixed-blood son of the Russian America Company's most renowned fur trader. He speaks five languages and knows the subarctic forest, its Native inhabitants, and the Alaska fur business like no one else. As a young man he was destined for great things, but when famine and mutiny brought his world crashing down he was demoted...