Eighteen months ago, aleut kate shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage Da's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of alaska. But the world has a way of ...Eighteen months ago, aleut kate shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage Da's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote.