So - I skipped all the ones that weren't available for Kindle and a couple of years of history of Niniltna and Kate Shugak. Kate is still with (in a 200 miles of Alaskan outback sort of way) the same guy that she had settled on in the first book although he makes no actual appearance in this one beyond a couple of phone calls. Her grandmother has died and left the mantle of tribal sage slowly drifting down to Kate's shoulders. Mutt, the 140 pound half wolf, is still with her, and she is still pretty unsettled about what she is going to when she grows up - or gets over having her throat cut (before book one) - whichever comes first.
The "breakup" has nothing to do with her relationship with Jack - it refers to that season in the frozen far far northern wastelands when winter gives over to spring and (specifically) the ice on the frozen rivers breaks up. From what I have read elsewhere - and "Northern Exposure" it is quite sudden and very dramatic. Here the entire period surrounding the actual break up is tagged with the name and it is generally recognized to be the crazy season.
In the first few hours of the story, Kate is chased by an enraged grizzly, has an airplane engine fall from a passing 747 and land on her truck, and must take cover from an enraged housewife who is chasing her husband with a gun. And that is only the first few hours - the pace picks up after that calm beginning.
I think Stabenow has gotten it together in this series. Keep in mind, of course, that I skipped five of them, so I don't know how long it took for this to happen - or possibly this one is a fluke - but I will definitely try another one, just to know for sure.
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