If you’re still planning your getaway to Alaska and absolutely cannot get your hands on “too much” information before you head out, you might consider reading some great fiction to keep yourself in the mood for your big adventure. Here are some titles that just might be worth investigating:Snow Angel: A Novel (Jamie Carie) is a can’t-put-down debut; a masterfully romantic story wherein cold and lonely hearts risk everything to be forever warmed. When Noah Wesley heard the faint sound outside the door of his remote Alaskan mountain cabin during a violent nighttime blizzard, it was no less than the voice of God that urged him to take a closer look, soon to discover his snow angel. Unconscious and more than half frozen to death, her name, as Noah would later learn after boldly saving her life, was Elizabeth, a beautiful young woman, fragile yet fierce, and intent on discovering gold like so many others in that region during the late 1800s. But why Elizabeth was so drawn to the gold, and why she would chase it even through a pounding storm that no man would dare face, was a secret to be shared with no one else, not even at the invitation of Noah’s deep blue trusting eyes.Last New Land: Stories of Alaska, Past and Present (Wayne Mergler) includes gems ranging from Native legends of the Creation, to Jack London’s stirring stories of frontier survival, to John Haines’s more contemporary reflections on homesteading. The Last New Land gathers a rich and comprehensive sampling of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Northland. Library Journal comments that “this exceptional anthology provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of the state and the scope and diversity of its literature.”Cold Company: An Alaska Mystery (Sue Henry) takes readers into the heart of America’s last frontier with a gripping tale of suspense set in a rugged land that appeals to the adventurous and strong … and to those who are drawn to darkness. Famed Alaskan “musher” Jessie Arnold thinks she’s finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall — along with a butterfly pendant necklace worn by the alleged victim of a brutal serial slayer who preyed on area women twenty years earlier. Pulled once more into a murder investigation against her will, Jessie fears a grim, half-forgotten nightmare has been reborn. For, in this stark and lonely place, in the first days of the all-too-brief Alaskan summer, another woman has disappeared without a trace. The signs suggest the unthinkable: an insatiable human monster has returned. And the clues she’s uncovering hint that Jessie Arnold may well be his next victim.