Summer Westin, who generally uses the nickname “Sam,” is the central character in a series of mystery novels by Pamela Beason. Sam was trained as a wildlife biologist and always wanted to work as a ranger in a national park. Instead, she is forced to eke out a living as a freelance writer/blogger who focuses on wilderness and outdoor adventures. She is often a one-woman team, serving as writer, photographer, videographer, lugging hi-tech camera gear into the back of beyond to cover the story. Sam is a preacher’s daughter from small-town Kansas, but she now lives in the Pacific Northwest, near Bellingham, Washington, where she spends as much time outdoors as she possibly can.
In ENDANGERED, Sam comes to Heritage National Monument in Utah to write about the park’s incredible beauty and its recovering cougar population. But when two-year-old Zack Fischer vanishes from a campsite and the media targets the local mountain lions as killers, Sam’s dream assignment turns into a nightmare. Her lover, TV reporter Adam Steele, uses Sam’s stories to fuel his inflammatory reports.
Sam is grateful when FBI Agent Chase Perez proves more willing to investigate all possibilities, because she has good reason to suspect that a two-legged predator kidnapped the boy. But can she prove it before it’s too late for both the boy and the cougars?
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In BEAR BAIT, Sam gets the chance to work on a three-month contract in Olympic National Park. She’s thrilled to wear a park service uniform as she completes a wildlife survey on land being transferred from the National Forest to the National Park. But a forest fire, a body found in the embers, a blasted-out mine, and illegal bear hunters lead Sam on a wild chase through the woods. FBI Agent Chase Perez’s job intersects with Sam’s as he pursues bank robbers across the Pacific Northwest until shared evidence leads both Sam and Chase down a tortuous trail toward a terrifying plan more spectacular and deadly than either of them could ever have predicted.
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UNDERCURRENTS opens in dreary winter, when Sam is offered a contract covering a marine survey expedition in the sunny Galapagos Islands. She can’t say no, even though she has to fudge the truth about her diving expertise to land the job.
The expedition goes badly from the first day when her dive partner’s air supply is contaminated with carbon monoxide. Is someone trying to sabotage their expedition to Darwin’s magical islands? Sam soon finds herself alone in deep and deadly trouble in a country where she doesn’t comprehend the language or the forces that are clearly out to get her.
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