Chopping Ice: Finding Love and Adventure in Alaska
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Flentge, Paul, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, Lonnie finds living the hippie lifestyle becomes impossible in his conservative community in the Midwest. He lands a job as a teamster in Anchorage, Alaska and becomes acquainted with a mismatched trio of friends. He finds out that what holds the Three Amigos together is the beautiful Buddhist Zoe, whom they saved from being violated and possibly murdered by a cruel trapper. He also discovers a terrible secret that underscores their manhood but, if revealed, could land them all in prison. Lonnie falls in love with Zoe and the Amigos try their best to keep them apart until Zoe falls for Lonnie too.A day of mishaps and betrayals of both his new friends and his new love puts Lonnie on the run trying to escape the vengeance of the Amigos. He holds up in an Alaska wilderness cabin trying to survive the cruel winter. Soon he meets the local trappers and befriends them. He also runs into a wolf and by watching the wild animal hunt unravels the elusive spiritual awakening that Zoe had tried but failed to bring him to. Armed with his new wisdom he returns to Anchorage only to find one of the Amigos was murdered due to Lonnie's letting part of the Amigos' secret slip while drinking Carnivore Whiskey with one of the mountain men. He then must put aside his new spiritual growth in order to protect Zoe and his friends from being killed, knowing that doing so, he will lose Zoe forever.