Women. Fishing. The Bering Sea. Some men don’t think they belong together. One woman wants to prove them wrong.
Mack Carter’s life is circling the drain. When he hears about how lucrative the fishing industry is in Alaska, he decides to try his luck on the frigid Aleutian Chain. There he meets, Nels Pearson, who teaches the younger man how to be a crab fisherman on the deadly Bering Sea and becomes the friend and father-figure Mack’s never known. Carter must learn to navigate both the foreign world on the water and home life on land, finding a tenuous balance with both.
Through circumstances beyond her control, Faith Pearson is inserted into the dangerous life the men live in. To most fishermen in this high-velocity world, women onboard a crab boat is a bad omen. Faith finds life on the sea difficult to maneuver, not just the conditions but the men and superstitions she must also endure.
When tragedy strikes her life again, Faith strives to overcome great obstacles, and prove herself worthy mentally and physically, as she navigates self-discovery in a man’s bleak yet adventurous world. She also discovers lessons about love from a delicious new co-worker and just how deadly the Bering Sea can be when her own life is on the line, possibly never releasing her from the catch.
Releasing the Catch, is a story of fathers and daughters, letting go of the past, self-discovery, and overcoming odds made harder simply for your gender. It’s the story of two individuals at different times in an intertwined and extraordinary life, with so much to teach one another.
BIOGRAPHY Jeny Heckman began her career in writing a little later in life after her father-in-law fell ill from non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She quit nursing school to help take care of him and found stress relief in exercise. While walking one day, she thought about a story involving fathers and daughters and decided to try and write it down. Releasing the Catch was created from that endeavor. She immediately fell in love with putting words to paper and decided to try her hand at writing a series. However, she didn't want the mainstream vampires, werewolves, and witches story, so tried her hand at the Greek gods and was immediately picked up by New York publisher, the Wild Rose Press.
Her debut novel of the series, the Sea Archer, won best in category at the Chanticleer International Books Awards in 2018 and cemented her passion for writing. The Heaven & Earth six-book series was born. Book two, the Warrior's Progeny came next and she immediately turned it into an audiobook. Jeny started getting requests for Dee Taylor's story, a character from book one, to be told and she created the novella, Dee's Cornucopia upon fan request.
When COVID-19 hit Jeny immersed herself in writing and turned out three books in 2019. The first, Dancing Through Tears, was part of an anthology through her publisher and entitled, Australia Burns, Volume Two. It benefitted the victims of the Australian wildfires, and fit in nicely with Jeny's second passion... charities. Dancing Through Tears is the story of her family's actual experience at the Route 91 Country Music Festival Massacre on October 1st, 2017, something that forever changed her life, and the life of her family.
In 2021 Jeny is working hard at completing Dee's Cornucopia, Soul Predilection, book three of the Heaven & Earth series, as well as turning the Sea Archer, Dee's Cornucopia, and Releasing the Catch into audiobooks. She is also planning the release of her interactive Heaven & Earth Companion book in early 2021.
The first edition of the Quest, the interactive book for her Heaven & Earth Series was released May 2021. Dee's Cornucopia is released on August 4th, 2021.
Jeny lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Jeff, of twenty-eight years. She has two grown children, Paisley and Charlie, and looks forward to their next life adventure. When not writing she and her husband spend their weekends and summers aboard their forty-foot Carver, the Scaup, and she devotes her time to her charities.
This book is different than what I'm used to reading but I loved the parallel stories of the main characters. Their stories of working through hardships and coming out stronger were inspiring. The book is set in frigid Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the Bering Sea, as well as majestic Seattle, Washington. A must-read if you like strong female characters and women who make it in situations they are not expected to be successful.
Book Detail
Title
Releasing the Catch
Author
Jeny Heckman
ASIN
B08P7MKP76
Publish Date
15, Dec 2020
Publisher
Celtic Butterfly Publishing
Language
English
Page Count
391
Cover Design
Elizabeth Berie
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