There was something under the ice at Steamboat Slough, something lost, buried in the frozen wreckage where the children feared to play.

For Daniel Edwards, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he taught school a decade past, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by the village elders.

In a mystery weaving the shifting imagery of a dream with modern psychology and ancient myth, Daniel struggles to solve the riddle of the old wreck and free himself from the haunting embrace of a nightmare older than history itself.

Based on a real story, time, and place where the author once served as a volunteer teacher in an Eskimo village, Steamboat Slough has a universal almost archetypal quality about it, a strange alchemy of science, soul and mythology.

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In Steamboat Slough, John Schettler, the award winning author of Meridian, has created another compelling tale where the mystery spawned from the wreck of an old steamboat haunts the main character, darkening his dreams and confounding his waking hours with strange, lingering remnants.

As he struggles to interpret what is happening to him, Daniel becomes embroiled in a slowly developing murder investigation, and the borders between this world and the hidden realm of dreams begin to break down.

Steamboat Slough soon becomes a mystery thriller, charged with the primal power of mythology as sleep brings Daniel into contact with an ancient, archetypal force that has preyed upon sleepers throughout human history.