"Too Deep to Cross"

Kerri Hakoda has worked in and out of Alaska in advertising and marketing, marine transportation, cable television and trade magazine ad sales. She was born and raised in Hawaii, but now calls northwest Washington her home, where she lives with her husband (himself a veteran of the Alaska fishing industry) and writes mystery, historical, and young adult science fiction.

Hakoda applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Too Deep to Cross: A Thriller, and shared the following:

At first, I thought, “No way would page 69 give the reader a good idea of the whole book.” But then, on closer examination, it might be a good test. The top of page 69 is the last section of a flashback, where Beans (the protagonist) comes to an epiphany in his young life. The rest of the page is in present day, and is a conversation between Beans and his sister. It’s a brief summary of events to date, and acts as a contrast to the previous life-changing passage. I think if anything, it might prompt the browser to want to read further.

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