College freshman Laurel Adams joined a summer research project in Alaska, where she lived with fellow researchers in a log cabin deep in the forest. But poachers were killing Alaskan brown bears and the young researchers decided to investigate. When a chance encounter showed who the villain was, Laurel needed all the courage her Alaskan adventure had taught her. Young Adult Fiction by Cynthia Baxter writing as Cynthia Blair; originally published by Fawcett Juniper