Perilous Tides: Real-life Stories From Knik, Alaska

The tides were threatening to pull them under. "No! You can't take her! Please don't take my baby!" Sue Ann's life was crumbling fast. She loved her daughter more than anything in the world. Everyone knew she was a great mother. How could the law give the child to her? That woman was terrible. Sue Ann couldn t bear it. How would she ever live with herself? Lynn had every intention of bleeding to death. He lifted the razor to his wrist and a whirlwind of emotions opened the floodgates of his memories. The horrors of military prison. The drugs and the bottle. The daydreams of murder and the fear of making them reality. He had seen more death and hardship than he wanted to remember. Would ending his life really ease the pain? Eldon left his father's dairy farm for a chance at adventure and the open seas. His job as an engineer aboard the SS Tillie Lykes seemed like smooth sailing, until an attack from a Nazi U-boat rocked his entire world. Wounded and alone, how could things possibly get any worse? What happens when the swell sweeps you to a place of despair? When the waves rise so high it seems impossible to make it through to the other side? You ll be swept up in these seven stories from Knik, Alaska. Will they stay the course? Or will they succumb to these...PERILOUS TIDES.