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Margin on the Bering
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A small boat. A drifting sheet of ice. A storm that does not forgive.
Three men leave a remote Alaska village in calm weather, expecting to be home by nightfall. They do not make it back.
A miscalculation, a shifting tide, and a rising storm carry them miles offshore across the Bering Sea-without fuel, without direction, and stranded on a sheet of drifting ice.
What follows is not survival by strength alone, but by restraint: quiet decisions made when no one is watching, discipline when panic would be easier, and the thin margin between control and disaster.
As the storm tightens and hope thins, the men discover that courage is not enough. Responsibility has a cost, memory has weight, and sometimes margin is the only thing that brings a person home.
Told through layered voices-on the ice and years later on the shore where it began-Margin on the Bering is an atmospheric Alaska survival novel about friendship, responsibility, redemption, and the sea that tests them.
For readers drawn to wilderness adventure, men-against-nature fiction, hard-earned redemption, and reflective stories of survival, this is a journey into the rare moments when the sea gives someone back.
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