The Drowning Machine

Meredith Salter planned a nine-day paddle to scatter her father's ashes on the outer coast of Alaska — laminated tide tables, a schedule, her fragile younger brother in the second kayak. Then a wounded girl washes up on a cobble beach with a phone full of murder, and the men hunting her own a fifty-eight-foot steel tender, a rifle, and a lie the Coast Guard believes. Forty miles to safety. One tidal gorge in between.