WILD

When two-year-old Zack Fischer vanishes from a campground, the television news instantly convicts the park’s cougars. Internet writer/reporter Sam Westin is forced to battle a media blitz, the hysterical public, and a flash flood to expose the human kidnapper she believes is hiding in the Utah wilderness.

BEAR BAIT*

Writer Sam Westin, originally trained as a wildlife biologist, finally gets her chance to play park ranger on a contract in Olympic National Park. After an explosion and fire lead her to a critically injured girl, Sam wades through a morass of clues that eventually point to a plan for her own spectacular murder by a group out to teach the U.S. government a deadly lesson.

*Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Prize

 
THE BACK OF BEYOND

When the Ecuadorian police seize her passport after the death of her marine biologist partner in the Galapagos Islands, wildlife writer and novice scuba diver Sam Westin is stuck in more ways than one. She has no choice but to complete her underwater survey alone as she tries to unmask the enemy in a land where she doesn’t understand the language or the forces that are clearly out to get her.