Cherime Macfarlane: 29 books

Olivia has had enough of paradise. The Bay Babe is hers, bequeathed by her father. The young woman sneaks out of the Hawaiian harbor bound for Alaska. It’s a long trip single-handed for a lone woman, but an urge for home on Kachemak Bay drives her. Adrift in a lifeboat on the Gulf of Alaska, Don...

Algen is finally home after spending most of her teen years, and young adulthood in Washington State. She has never been clear on the reason she got sent to live with her father’s relatives. But she has a job she loves and can finally live in the place she loves. The Aurora Borealis fascinates her;...

Mike has every reason to be careful. His business leaves him open to threats and possibly violence. He is suspicious of the woman hanging around the dilapidated old garage near the road. What is she doing on his property?Angie saw the little kitten on the way to work. The poor little thing is living...

CoDee is a brain damaged young man living on a dusty, dirty desert world. He is barely functional but owns an old junk yard. He hates it when dead animals are dumped in the yard. He says it "hurts his heart" to deal with them. The world he lives on caters to the older poorer freighters and...

Cat and CoDee have refitted the Bond and are pursuing their dream of being space traders. Cat only wants to find goods to trade, CoDee yearns to experience and explore. The sector of space he longs to explore has a dark history. Ships vanish. Cat can't recall the reason this area terrifies and revolts...

It is 1881 and Dmitri Bressoff, son of a Russian adventurer, stays in Alaska after the purchase of Seward's Folly by the United States. A widower with a ten year old daughter to raise, he cannot forget his wife. Depressed by his age and loneliness, his assignation with one woman turns into marriage...

Jimmy and his friends and family are looking forward to Christmas in the Copper Basin. But things go awry when disaster strikes on the only road in and out of Valdez, Alaska. A pregnant pig, the failure of an electrical breaker and below zero temperatures don't make it easy for Tina Jean to keep the homestead running until Jimmy and their oldest son, Kyle get home somehow.

A young woman makes the terrible discovery that the man she idolizes is not her father. Worse, he won both her mother and her in a card game. Emma Kay is devastated and unable to handle the news. A short story of Life and Love in Alaska

Molly only takes chances while driving. Life burned her, and she isn’t ready to open herself up to new wounds. Louis, Lou for short, knows more about the woman than she likes. When she discovers Lou crewed with her dead husband, Molly wonders how much Davis Lee told his shipmate about her. He’s...

Life and love in Alaska, The Cheat. Francis labels herself as "fat and forty". How in the world she came to be living with the guitar player of a popular Alaska band is a wonder to her. Monte is a groupie magnet and Francis is waiting for him to tell her it's over. The text message she gets from him...

NOTE: All Life and Love in Alaska stories are short, some are very short. His father-in-law is making Turk's life miserable. Turk’s uncle has taken an extended leave of absence in Hawaii. With no authority to do so, the young husband and father must hold the business together. The time Turk does...

On crutches and no longer able to fly jets, Brett is grateful to have come home alive instead of in a box. Though he’s still got his leg, there’s a lot of pain, too so a relative sends him to see the pretty herbalist who helps people with pain and nerve problems. One look at her and Brett wants...

Della Street Jones is everyone’s ‘good little girl’ and tired of the label. Munk Riley is the skinny little thief she shared her lunch with until the family left the Copper Basin. The Jones family gives Riley a chance to redeem himself and earns a diesel mechanic certification. All Munk wants...

Ace knew it was her at first glance. Dressed in jeans and a neon yellow safety vest, the woman holding the traffic control sign was the grown-up version of the girl who ran out on him years ago. The stop sign in her hand said it all; stop thinking about her and forget her name. Adele wanted another...