The Last Run
A Novel
Published on 9. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
251 pages
978-1-6625-3711-0 (ISBN)
Description
On the bracing edges of Alaska, a single mother is driven to secure her legacy in a powerful novel of family, forgiveness, and finding one's place in the world by the author of Point of Direction.
It's been years since Ellie fished the Alaskan coastline-not since her mother died. But when she finds her father beat up behind the local bar, she learns he's done the unforgivable: gambled away the family's commercial fishing boat-her five-year-old son's inheritance and the life she longs to reclaim. For nefarious reasons of his own, the bookie gives them one season to earn the money to buy it back.
Ellie agrees to fish with her father, Pete, bringing her son, Drew, along as they chase the slim hope of paying off the debt. She's no stranger to backbreaking work and little sleep; what she's never been good at is accepting help-or trusting anyone, especially a secretive homesteader with demons of his own. Ellie's growing attraction and the dangerous waters are the least of her worries. She's hiding secrets from everyone and, as the date with the bookie draws closer, she is at risk of losing it all.
It's been years since Ellie fished the Alaskan coastline-not since her mother died. But when she finds her father beat up behind the local bar, she learns he's done the unforgivable: gambled away the family's commercial fishing boat-her five-year-old son's inheritance and the life she longs to reclaim. For nefarious reasons of his own, the bookie gives them one season to earn the money to buy it back.
Ellie agrees to fish with her father, Pete, bringing her son, Drew, along as they chase the slim hope of paying off the debt. She's no stranger to backbreaking work and little sleep; what she's never been good at is accepting help-or trusting anyone, especially a secretive homesteader with demons of his own. Ellie's growing attraction and the dangerous waters are the least of her worries. She's hiding secrets from everyone and, as the date with the bookie draws closer, she is at risk of losing it all.
Reviews / Votes
"A page-turning, authentic Alaskan tale that you'll want to devour in one sitting." -Alaska Magazine"The Last Run is thrilling-a propulsive adventure story about a mother fighting to save her family legacy and her son, all while covered in fish guts, battling Alaskan storms, outwitting dangerous men, and coming to terms with her past. Rachel Weaver's Alaska is beautiful and punishing, and her stories make me want to chuck my phone in the trash and go fishing. Can't wait for the next one." -Tiffany Quay Tyson, author of The Past Is Never
"Rachel Weaver is among the very best writers who shirk the well-trod path of the male adventure hero to embrace a more flawed, more human, more whole character. Ellie Baker, our hero in The Last Run, negotiates not only the treacherous waters and rugged wilderness of Alaska, but the even more challenging terrain of motherhood and family, in the end learning that losing everything often means gaining what matters most." -BK Loren, author of Theft
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6625-3711-0 (9781662537110)
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Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which was named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now by O, The Oprah Magazine and was the winner of the 2015 WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction. It was also chosen by the American Booksellers Association as a Top Ten Debut for Spring 2014 and by IndieBound as an Indie Next List pick. Prior to earning her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University, Rachel worked for the US Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors, and songbirds. She is on faculty at Wilkes University's low-residency MFA program and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. For more information, visit www.rachelweaver.net.