The seiner series follows Mack, his brother Pete, their families, and crew members as they live and work commercial fishing for Wild Alaskan Salmon in Southcentral Alaska. The ongoing series starts with season one in Rocky Bay. Taking you through season two are three books: Res Bay is the beginning of the season, K Bay covers the middle and Windy Bay wraps the season up, taking you through the end of the year.
Upcoming releases are season three, Taylor Bay, a full year of challenges for everyone. Season four begins with Aialik Bay and ends in Home Bay. Boulder Bay covers season five and subsequent seasons are in the works. (updated 12/1/2023)
Rocky Bay
Facing broken equipment and backstabbing crew is more than enough but Mother Nature throws her hand in too. it’s all Mack can do to stay alive.
College student Ginny travels all the way from Vermont and finally arrives in the state she’s dreamed of all her life. Hired by Mack, she faces life-threatening challenges that send her home to Vermont, never expecting to return.
Res Bay
Pete took last year off at his wife’s insistence, for their family’s sake. With his twins now in college, everything seems to be costing twice what he’d planned and the fishing industry is going through an upheaval. Great. Just what he needs, more pressure.
Justin is known as ‘the quiet twin’. When he steps in to take on the second most aggressive job on his dad’s boat everyone looks at him with astonishment. But that’s just the beginning…
K Bay
Driven to fish for a living almost a thousand miles from his home bay, Mack is back in K Bay for another salmon season and he’s dreading every minute of it. After going head to head against ‘ramrod Hurley’ he’s on high alert twenty-four seven. When he’s forced to call his ex-wife for her help, everything gets sticky.
Secretly eager to return to K Bay for it’s natural beauty, Ginny never expected that her friendship with a crewman would deepen as they worked together. Now she has to choose: go back to college in Vermont or stay in Alaska and cast her net for a new path in life.
Windy Bay
Last year’s hatchery virus made wild salmon worth their weight in gold. Now every fisherman with a boat is seeking the motherlode off the coast of Alaska.
When Mack and Pete see the flood of boats they’re afraid they won’t be catching anything this season and it takes all their experience to make things work.
Faced with a family crisis, Justin is forced to step up to the wheel. That means he also has to deal with his argumentative twin brother Case, who reluctantly returns to the family fishing business.
Ginny has put her friend from college off one too many times, but the wild world of commercial fishing and life in Alaska still has her debating her future. Faced with tragedy in Windy Bay, she finally finds the answers she’s been looking for.
Taylor Bay
Home from the season-from-hell, the seiners face even more difficulties. Mack’s got his hands full, and a houseful, and nothing’s going the way he’d planned.
Justin hoped that Ginny’s decision to stay in Alaska meant they’d finally get to know each other better but when Dylan shows up everything he’s hoped for takes a nosedive.
Ginny’s on her own—again. Why, oh why, does everyone leave her hanging, changing her world with a few words and quick walk in the opposite direction. Sick of it, she decides it’s time to make things happen the way she wants.
Aialik Bay
Still at the helm of the Calypso, Justin can’t get Ginny to switch boats or tell him why she won’t. With his twin refusing to come back as skiffman, he’s down a crewman in a year where no one seems to fit.
Case is done commercial fishing and he can’t say it enough. Flying in the sky above the boats is where he wants to be but it’s his connections that keep him airborne.
Pete’s work is satisfying, he’s got a knack he never knew was there. If he could only get his personal life to run as smoothly.
Home Bay
Given an unexpected second chance, Case didn’t even recognize his best friend, the only person he’s every poured his heart and soul out to. Now she wants nothing to do with him and this time she means it.
Chelsea has adored Case since they were teenagers, but that secret crush ends when he flirts with her, thinking she’s a stranger. Why didn’t she straighten him out immediately? Does she owe him one more chance or not?
Is the third time really a charm—restoring their friendship—or will they part as frenemies? When all the talk turns to weddings and Case says he wants nothing to do with marriage, Chelsea has a hard choice to make.
Boulder Bay
Ginny’s been tracked down by a former foster brother, creating havoc within her and fury in Justin. When she learns that Case helped him all hell breaks loose and the gloves come off, creating even greater tension within the Nichols family. It’s time for everyone to come clean about their past.
Meet The Crew:
Ginny, in love with Alaska since she was a child, travels across the country and ends up on Mack’s boat, only to discover that real life is much harsher than the “reality” shows she’d watched.
Wade, Mack’s longstanding skiffman, wishes his relationships were as stable as his job. Mack’s new deckhand Viv isn’t making things any easier.
Viv accepted a job on Mack’s boat out of the blue, but she finds an unexpected connection when she hears about the seiner’s recent challenges. What’s she going to do now that she knows their secrets?
Justin, Pete’s oldest son, has to tell his parents that four years of college are three too many for him. He’s ready to work at the only thing he’s ever wanted to do.
Case, Justin’s popular twin, has no intention of following the family business and he’s not shy about saying so, no matter who it hurts.
Gabe has a different perspective than his father Fred. His passion is sustainability and he’ll work ’till he drops for the changes needed to protect the bay and the salmon he loves.
Fred is a traditionalist to the core and he always comes out fighting for what he believes in. Right now, he believes in helping himself and making sure everyone else stays out of his bay and out of his way.