"Alaska Now: is a romance and adventure novel about modern day Alaska. In this novel the stage is set for love and adventure on a grand scale as Kate Posnikoff, a lovely Russian-Alutiiq descendent CEO hires Geoff Dean, a charming son of an oil executive to be the new trouble shooter for the Native Corporations Coucil. The result is a desperate balancing of oil interests, wildlife preservation, cultural values and economic necessity in the resource extraction state that is Alaska. In the process the two fall desperately in love.  

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Katherine Posnikoff stared at the young, tall, charming, New York graduate student with growing consternation. Her role as CEO of the Native Corporation Coucil of Alaska did not include seducing possible employees. However her body was insisting on such a thing. She forcibly repressed her unacceptable urges and did her best to concentrate on the, unfortunately for her, rather sensual voice of the recent graduate of the leading business degree program in the Lower forty-eight, as they called the mainland US in Alaska.
"So Prince William Sound has completely recovered from the Exxon-Valdez spill, I understand?" Geoff Dean questioned.
"Tell that to the mussels on the bottom of the ocean who continue to absorb blobs of crude that haven't dissipated. Or the sea otters who eat the mussels and now can't manage to reproduce."