The Grrrl of Limberlost

After escaping exurban life on Puget Sound a decade earlier, Sam became a rockstar among anti-hacker security programmers: appearing at BlackHat conferences in vintage t-shirts and combat boots; investigating international security conspiracies with the FBI and NSA. Now Sam is dragged home to Limberlost Island: her brother accidentally embroiled her hippie father with gun runners; the boy next door came home as prodigal son, hiding from Eastern European gangsters; a porn farmer thinks...
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After escaping exurban life on Puget Sound a decade earlier, Sam became a rockstar among anti-hacker security programmers: appearing at BlackHat conferences in vintage t-shirts and combat boots; investigating international security conspiracies with the FBI and NSA. Now Sam is dragged home to Limberlost Island: her brother accidentally embroiled her hippie father with gun runners; the boy next door came home as prodigal son, hiding from Eastern European gangsters; a porn farmer thinks he's in love. Meanwhile, the local weather guru says the Arctic cold air mass headed for the Puget Sound Conversion Zone will dump record snow. Seattle is paralyzed when it snows. The Grrrl of Limberlost follows three voices through the frenzy and terror in their daily lives, mired in family losses and betrayals, while weaponized malware threatens to ruin Christmas. The key mystery: which of them is the unreliable narrator? This light comedy-suspense novel longs for romance, but hardly anyone has time for it. The story does contain inexplicit sex scenes and the language you'd expect from gangsters, porn-farmers, and retro Riot Grrrls.